Examiner Begeman Andrew W

3798-BEGEMAN-ANDREW-W

Employment Information

Art Unit:3798 — Surgery
Group:3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
Classes: 600 — Surgery
601 — Surgery: kinesitherapy
382 — Image analysis
Phone:(571) 272-4744
Email:andrew.begeman@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr(Biomedical Engrg)
Service:5 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

91
3-Year Grant rate: 29% over 79 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 91st

With Examiner Begeman, you have a 29% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Begeman is an extremely hard examiner and in the 91st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Begeman, where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.

Comparison with Art Unit 3798

Examiner Begeman's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3798 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Begeman 3.1
Art Unit 3798 1.9

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Begeman has granted 13 of 53 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 25%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Begeman has granted 10 of 26 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 38%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Begeman, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 52%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18333323 Device For Intra-Cardiac And Intra-Vascular Surgical Procedure Having An Endoluminal Ultrasound Probe Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
17213636 Holographic Treatment Zone Modeling And Feedback Loop For Surgical Procedures Abandoned View
17674484 Distributed Portable Ultrasound System Patented View
17262390 Ultrasound System And Method For Guided Shear Wave Elastography Of Anisotropic Tissue Patented View
18074678 Customized Patient Tracker For Image Guided Surgery Abandoned View
18180674 Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus And Control Method For Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus For Displaying Ultrasound Image And Radiation Image Abandoned View
18447909 Noninvasive Biomarker For Diagnosing Major Depressive Disorder Using Optical Coherence Tomography Abandoned View
17205381 Deformation Model For A Tissue Abandoned View
16645181 System And Method For Measuring Real-Time Body Kinematics Patented View
18173629 Ultrasound System And Control Method Of Ultrasound System Which Have Function Of Preventing Forgetting To Attach Protective Equipment That Protects Ultrasound Probe Patented View
18689179 Ultrasound Imaging System And Method Patented View
17542334 Spectro-Mechanical Imaging For Characterizing Embedded Lesions Patented View
17956222 Portable Medical Device Abandoned View
17614598 Relative Location Determining For Passive Ultrasound Sensors Abandoned View
17877117 Tracking System Abandoned View
18508518 Apparatus For Noninvasive Veterinary Screening And Diagnosis Abandoned View
17237931 Methods, Systems, And Computer Readable Media For Utilizing Ultrasound Multiple Scattering To Access Pulmonary Fibrosis Patented View
17892718 Multi-Object Thermal Radiation Measuring Device And Operating Method Thereof Abandoned View
17068118 Procedure Visualization And Guidance Abandoned View
17393022 Ultrasound Probe Guidance Patented View
17032963 Image Processing System And Control Method Thereof Abandoned View
18741279 Ultrasonic Device For Coupling An Ultrasonic Coupling Gel And Ultrasonic Head Patented View
17229515 Methods And Systems For Determining Body Composition Of Biological Bodies Using A Resonant Cavity Abandoned View
17430461 Artificial Neural Network-Based Nuclear Magnetic Resonance And Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data Processing Method And Apparatus Thereof Patented View
16351075 Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy Using Ultrasound Abandoned View
17608782 Method And Apparatus For Shear Wave Generation Abandoned View
16604190 Laser Line Directional System For 3d Anatomy Ultrasound Phantom Trainer Abandoned View
18146368 Medical Devices And Methods Thereof Abandoned View
17239335 Displaying Blood Vessels In Ultrasound Images Patented View
18307094 Magnetocardiography Measuring Apparatus Patented View
17841489 Wearable Imaging System For Measuring Bone Displacement Patented View
17132233 Medical Image Diagnostics System And Ultrasonic Probe Abandoned View
17581439 Actively Cooled Ultrasound Probe With Additively Manufactured Heat Exchanger Abandoned View
17115966 Method And Apparatus For Quantitative Imaging Using Ultrasound Data Patented View
17872717 Large Vessel Occlusion Alert From Optical Measurements Abandoned View
17506180 Method And System For Characterizing Valvular Regurgitation/insufficiency From Sequences Of Images Patented View
17202508 Electronic Device, Control Method For The Electronic Device, And Storage Medium Patented View
17652591 Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus, Determination Method, And Determination Program Abandoned View
18105207 Intraoperative Ultrasound Probe System And Related Methods Abandoned View
16366803 Radiation Image Processing Apparatus And Radiation Image Processing Method Abandoned View
17373015 Apparatus And Method For Estimating Blood Pressure Patented View
17604941 Anatomical Structure Identification Apparatus And Display Method Thereof Patented View
17788416 Device For Monitoring Hifu Treatments Abandoned View
16637284 Device, System And Method For Determining A Physiological Parameter Of A Subject Abandoned View
16695974 Method And Device For Measuring A Mean Value Of Visco-Elasticity Of A Region Of Interest Patented View
17764029 Recording Ultrasound Images Abandoned View
17412696 Actively Damped Ultrasonic Transducer Abandoned View
17831611 Ultrasound Imaging Apparatus, Ultrasound Imaging System, Method Of Operating Ultrasound Imaging Apparatus, Computer-Readable Recording Medium, And Ultrasound Endoscope System Abandoned View
18526848 Detecting Fluid Flows Using Ultrasound Imaging Systems Patented View
17062917 Method For Maintaining Localization Of Distal Catheter Tip To Target During Ventilation And/or Cardiac Cycles Abandoned View

Appeals Statistics

Purchase Subscription

Subscribe to Premium Examiner Statistics for unlimited access for your law firm.

Disclaimer: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy of the statistics presented above and under
no circumstances will we be liable for any outcome resulting from your reliance on the above statistics.

Loading...