Examiner Karam Hijji

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2016 (116 months ago).

Examiner Karam Hijji appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 53.1%, they average 2.19 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.19

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 6 years (2011-2016)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1730 - Metallurgy, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 207
Granted Applications: 110
Non-Granted Applications: 97
Avg OA / Grant: 2.19
Last OA Observed: November 2016 (116 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1731
Work Groups Seen: 1730 - Metallurgy, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	53.1%	2.19
Art Unit	32	49.3%	1.87
Group	189	49.7%	1.97
Tech Center	1,762	45.4%	2.14
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 2011; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2011	32	17	53.1%
2012	39	26	66.7%
2013	32	16	50.0%
2014	36	24	66.7%
2015	36	17	47.2%
2016	32	10	31.3%
No observed data after 2016; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	207	0.5%	3.9%	85.0%	3.4%
2	134	0.7%	1.5%	90.3%	2.2%
3	58	0.0%	0.0%	96.6%	0.0%
4	37	0.0%	2.7%	89.2%	5.4%
5	17	0.0%	0.0%	94.1%	0.0%
6	12	0.0%	0.0%	91.7%	0.0%
7	6	0.0%	0.0%	83.3%	0.0%
8	3	0.0%	0.0%	66.7%	0.0%
9	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

1.1%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

2.3%

2016

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