Examiner Estifanos Hailu
Examiner Estifanos Hailu appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 37.5%, they average 1.33 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.
Difficulty vs AU
Very Easy
Difficulty vs Group
Very Easy
Difficulty vs TC
About Average
Difficulty vs USPTO
About Average
Average OA / Grant
1.33
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Examiner Details
- Observed Examiner Years
- 3 years (2022-2024)
- Tech Center
- 1600 - Biotechnology and Organic
- Group
- 1670 - Virology and Related Immunology
Metrics
- Applications Evaluated
- 16
- Granted Applications
- 6
- Non-Granted Applications
- 10
- Avg OA / Grant
- 1.33
- Last OA Observed
- February 2024 (26 months ago)
- Work Groups Seen
Context Comparison
| Scope | Examiners | Lifetime Grant Ratio | Avg OA / Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Examiner | 1 | 37.5% | 1.33 |
| Art Unit | 22 | 27.9% | 2.22 |
| Group | 80 | 29.9% | 1.92 |
| 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 2022; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset. | |||
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | 100.0% |
| 2023 | 12 | 3 | 25.0% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| No observed data after 2024; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work. | |||
6 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.
Rejection Timeline
| OA # | Office Actions | § 101 Percentage | § 102 Percentage | § 103 Percentage | § 112 Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 | 5.7% | 0.0% | 80.0% | 8.6% |
| 2 | 22 | 9.1% | 0.0% | 50.0% | 22.7% |
| 3 | 9 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 55.6% | 33.3% |
| 4 | 2 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| 8 | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% |
§ 101 Yearly Trend
Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.