Examiner Hotaling John M

3992-HOTALING-JOHN-M

Employment Information

Art Unit:3992 — Multiplex communications
Group:3990 — Central Reexamination Unit
Classes: 375 — Pulse or digital communications
370 — Multiplex communications
381 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
455 — Telecommunications
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
361 — Electricity: electrical systems and devices
307 — Electrical transmission or interconnection systems
Phone:(571) 272-4437
Email:john.hotaling@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

60
3-Year Grant rate: 70% over 44 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 60th

With Examiner Hotaling, you have a 70% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hotaling is a medium examiner and in the 60th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hotaling, 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 3992

Examiner Hotaling's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3992 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Hotaling 1.4
Art Unit 3992 2.0

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Hotaling has granted 21 of 30 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 70%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Hotaling has granted 10 of 14 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 71%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Hotaling, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 1%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17989917 Method And Apparatus For Video-Encoding/decoding Using Filter Information Prediction Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17520042 Methods And Systems For Delivery Of Multiple Passive Optical Network Services Patented View
17121195 Apparatus And Method For Automated Vehicle Roadside Assistance Patented View
17401836 Resource Allocation Patented View
15998388 Lithographic Apparatus, Device Manufacturing Method, And Method Of Correcting A Mask Patented View
17875650 Mobile Communications System And Mobile Terminal Patented View
17725349 Method And Apparatus For Controlling Reception Of Scptm Service Using Scptm-Rnti Patented View
17329333 Power Adapter Packaging Patented View
17329520 Exporting Real Time Network Traffic Latency And Buffer Occupancy Patented View
17535484 Terminal, Base Station, And Method For The Same Patented View
16787653 Backlight Unit Having A Lens With Refraction And Reflection Portions Patented View
17724375 Method And Apparatus For Nr-Dmrs Sequence Design Patented View
16566709 Uplink Control Information Transmissions/receptions In Wireless Networks Patented View
16998778 Patient Care Pathway Shape Analysis Abandoned View
17073203 Method For Transmitting Uplink Signals Patented View
17357610 Apparatus, A Method And A Computer Program For Video Coding And Decoding Patented View
16999558 Ultrasonic Sensing System Patented View
17326363 Method And Apparatus For Scheduling User Equipment Uplink Transmissions On An Unlicensed Carrier Patented View
16999126 Business Process Workflow System Abandoned View
17313352 Generation Of Fast Frequency Ramps Patented View
17325875 Adaptive Noise Cancellation For Multiple Audio Endpoints In A Shared Space Patented View
15249102 Networked Sound Masking And Paging System Abandoned View
17218623 Precoder Structure For Mimo Precoding Patented View
17112647 System And Method For Mobile Telephone Roaming Abandoned View
16908607 Method And Apparatus For Video-Encoding/decoding Using Filter Information Prediction Patented View
16749726 Broadcast Signal Transmitting Apparatus, Broadcast Signal Receiving Apparatus, Broadcast Signal Transmitting Method, And Broadcast Signal Receiving Method Patented View
16869350 Mobile Communication Terminal And Method Of The Same For Outputting Short Message Patented View
16745558 Enabling Virtual Workloads Using Overlay Technologies To Interoperate With Physical Network Services Patented View
16742738 Quantization Matrix Compression In Video Coding Patented View
16401796 Wireless Earbuds And Related Methods Patented View
16432549 Resource Allocation Patented View
16416284 Scan Driver And Organic Light-Emitting Display Using Same Patented View
16400122 Exporting Real Time Network Traffic Latency And Buffer Occupancy Patented View
16367741 Image Decoding Apparatus Adaptively Determining A Scan Pattern According To An Intra Prediction Mode Patented View
16375408 Self-Synchronizing Probe Sequence Patented View
15268453 Distributed Digital Reference Clock Patented View
16277816 Distributed Digital Reference Clock Patented View
15986833 Non-Overlap Data Transmission Method For Liquid Crystal Display And Related Transmission Circuit Patented View
15275447 Life Management Circuit, An Electronic System And A Machine-Implemented Method For Managing Usage Rates Of Multiple Electronic Components Abandoned View
15939006 Method And Apparatus For Video-Encoding/decoding Using Filter Information Prediction Abandoned View
15833863 Broadcast Receiving System And Method For Processing Broadcast Signals Patented View
15920693 Positioning Database Management Applied To Server-Based Positioning System Patented View
15654920 Method And Apparatus For Objective Assessment Of In-Ear Device Acoustical Performance Patented View
15927222 Server-Based Positioning System Architecture Patented View
15471609 Flow-Based Packet Transport Device And Packet Management Method Thereof Abandoned View
15488492 Methods And Apparatuses For Echo Cancelation With Beamforming Microphone Arrays Abandoned View
15400121 Systems And Methods For Reduced Bit-Depth Processing In Video-Related Data With Frequency Weighting Matrices Patented View
15400111 Systems And Methods For Reduced Bit-Depth Processing In Video-Related Data With Frequency Weighting Matrices Patented View
15044998 Parameterized Codebook With Subset Restrictions For Use With Precoding Mimo Transmissions Patented View

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