Examiner Peter G O'Sullivan

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2012 (159 months ago).

Examiner Peter G O'Sullivan appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 65.1%, they average 1.32 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.32

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 5 years (2008-2012)
Tech Center: 1600 - Biotechnology and Organic
Group: 1620 - Biomedicinal Chemistry

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 166
Granted Applications: 108
Non-Granted Applications: 58
Avg OA / Grant: 1.32
Last OA Observed: December 2012 (159 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1621
Work Groups Seen: 1620 - Biomedicinal Chemistry

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	65.1%	1.32
Art Unit	33	46.3%	1.73
Group	248	48.3%	1.76
Tech Center	1,349	39.5%	2.02
USPTO	16,116	54.8%	1.98

Grant Timeline

Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.

Year	Applications	Granted	Grant Rate
No observed data before 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	20	13	65.0%
2009	56	33	58.9%
2010	32	24	75.0%
2011	48	32	66.7%
2012	10	6	60.0%
No observed data after 2012; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

108 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	166	0.6%	3.0%	56.0%	12.7%
2	54	0.0%	7.4%	64.8%	3.7%
3	8	0.0%	12.5%	50.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

0.0%

2008

1.3%

2009

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.