Examiner Susannah Chung

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2015 (126 months ago).

Examiner Susannah Chung appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 68.6%, they average 1.65 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §103 and elevated §112 usage.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.65

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2008-2015)
Tech Center: 1600 - Biotechnology and Organic
Group: 1620 - Biomedicinal Chemistry

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 458
Granted Applications: 314
Non-Granted Applications: 144
Avg OA / Grant: 1.65
Last OA Observed: September 2015 (126 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1626 , 1764 , 1768
Work Groups Seen: 1620 - Biomedicinal Chemistry

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	68.6%	1.65
Art Unit	30	60.6%	1.65
Group	248	48.3%	1.76
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	64	45	70.3%
2009	100	68	68.0%
2010	72	49	68.1%
2011	108	74	68.5%
2012	76	58	76.3%
2013	23	19	82.6%
2014	2	0	0.0%
2015	13	1	7.7%
No observed data after 2015; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	458	0.9%	6.1%	34.7%	26.2%
2	226	1.8%	7.1%	37.6%	40.7%
3	42	0.0%	9.5%	45.2%	28.6%
4	15	0.0%	6.7%	46.7%	20.0%
5	3	0.0%	0.0%	66.7%	33.3%
6	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.8%

2008

0.6%

2009

0.8%

2010

1.1%

2011

2.8%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

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