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Examiner Phillip Gambel

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2022 (40 months ago).

Examiner Phillip Gambel appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 46.5%, they average 1.94 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward ยง103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy
Difficulty vs Group About Average
Difficulty vs TC Very Easy
Difficulty vs USPTO About Average
Average OA / Grant 1.94
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
15 years (2008-2022)
Tech Center
1600 - Biotechnology and Organic
Group
1640 - Immunology

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
684
Granted Applications
318
Non-Granted Applications
366
Avg OA / Grant
1.94
Last OA Observed
November 2022 (40 months ago)
Art Units Seen
1644
Work Groups Seen
1640 - Immunology

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 46.5% 1.94
Art Unit 27 42.0% 2.08
Group 223 44.8% 1.94
Tech Center 1,349 39.5% 2.02
USPTO 16,116 54.8% 1.98

Grant Timeline

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
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 43 12 27.9%
2009 56 14 25.0%
2010 39 10 25.6%
2011 30 12 40.0%
2012 37 17 45.9%
2013 46 25 54.3%
2014 54 29 53.7%
2015 40 21 52.5%
2016 61 32 52.5%
2017 50 25 50.0%
2018 52 30 57.7%
2019 51 28 54.9%
2020 50 28 56.0%
2021 40 17 42.5%
2022 35 18 51.4%
No observed data after 2022; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 704 1.4% 19.5% 38.1% 12.5%
2 379 1.3% 20.3% 54.4% 16.4%
3 176 0.6% 16.5% 64.8% 13.6%
4 100 0.0% 16.0% 64.0% 13.0%
5 51 0.0% 13.7% 70.6% 11.8%
6 31 0.0% 6.5% 71.0% 19.4%
7 12 0.0% 8.3% 75.0% 16.7%
8 8 0.0% 12.5% 62.5% 25.0%
9 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
10 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
2.2%
2008
2.9%
2009
1.0%
2010
3.1%
2011
0.0%
2012
0.8%
2013
0.0%
2014
1.3%
2015
0.0%
2016
0.8%
2017
0.9%
2018
2.0%
2019
0.0%
2020
0.0%
2021
1.6%
2022

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