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Examiner Stuart W. Snyder

Appears inactive Last observed office action: January 2020 (74 months ago).

Examiner Stuart W. Snyder appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 65.3%, they average 1.96 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by ยง103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average
Difficulty vs Group About Average
Difficulty vs TC Very Easy
Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy
Average OA / Grant 1.96
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
13 years (2008-2020)
Tech Center
1600 - Biotechnology and Organic
Group
1640 - Immunology

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
363
Granted Applications
237
Non-Granted Applications
126
Avg OA / Grant
1.96
Last OA Observed
January 2020 (74 months ago)
Art Units Seen
1648
Work Groups Seen
1640 - Immunology

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 65.3% 1.96
Art Unit 24 56.7% 1.92
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
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 29 21 72.4%
2009 36 23 63.9%
2010 21 12 57.1%
2011 18 5 27.8%
2012 28 15 53.6%
2013 32 14 43.8%
2014 32 17 53.1%
2015 25 13 52.0%
2016 45 36 80.0%
2017 44 34 77.3%
2018 41 35 85.4%
2019 11 11 100.0%
2020 1 1 100.0%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 388 1.3% 8.2% 61.9% 13.7%
2 212 1.4% 6.6% 77.4% 7.1%
3 89 2.2% 2.2% 78.7% 10.1%
4 45 2.2% 2.2% 62.2% 13.3%
5 21 0.0% 9.5% 61.9% 4.8%
6 9 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
7 4 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%
8 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
9 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2008
1.7%
2009
0.0%
2010
0.0%
2011
2.8%
2012
1.7%
2013
6.3%
2014
3.0%
2015
0.0%
2016
0.0%
2017
1.1%
2018
0.0%
2019
0.0%
2020

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