Examiner Zachary Mark Turpin
Examiner Zachary Mark Turpin appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 0.0% and their rejection profile leans toward ยง103.
Difficulty vs AU
Very Hard
Difficulty vs Group
Very Hard
Difficulty vs TC
Very Hard
Difficulty vs USPTO
Very Hard
Average OA / Grant
N/A
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Examiner Details
- Observed Examiner Years
- 3 years (2024-2026)
- Phone
- (703) 756-5917
- Predicted Supervisor
- Winston Shen
- Supervisor Phone
- (571) 272-3157
- Tech Center
- 1600 - Biotechnology and Organic
- Group
- 1680 - Nucleic Acid Assay and Combinatorial / Computational Chemistry
Metrics
- Applications Evaluated
- 78
- Granted Applications
- 0
- Non-Granted Applications
- 78
- Avg OA / Grant
- N/A
- Last OA Observed
- June 2026 (1 months ago)
- Art Units Seen
- 1682
Context Comparison
| Scope | Examiners | Lifetime Grant Ratio | Avg OA / Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Examiner | 1 | 0.0% | N/A |
| Art Unit | 8 | 0.5% | 1.33 |
| Group | 65 | 7.1% | 2.37 |
| Tech Center | 1,365 | 38.5% | 2.02 |
| USPTO | 16,347 | 53.5% | 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 2024; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset. | |||
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 23 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2026 | 54 | 0 | 0.0% |
0 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.
Rejection Timeline
| OA # | Office Actions | § 101 Percentage | § 102 Percentage | § 103 Percentage | § 112 Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 77 | 1.3% | 9.1% | 49.4% | 1.3% |
| 2 | 49 | 2.0% | 8.2% | 44.9% | 2.0% |
| 3 | 15 | 0.0% | 13.3% | 66.7% | 0.0% |
| 4 | 8 | 0.0% | 25.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| 5 | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
§ 101 Yearly Trend
2024: AI Examples
2025: Aug. Memo
Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.