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| 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 70% over 44 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 60th
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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).
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.
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 |
Examiner Hotaling has granted 21 of 30 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 70%.
Examiner Hotaling has granted 10 of 14 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 71%.
With Examiner Hotaling, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 1%.
| 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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