Examiner Gautam Prakash

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2021 (51 months ago).

Examiner Gautam Prakash appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 54.7%, they average 2.54 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 2.54

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 12 years (2010-2021)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1790 - Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 404
Granted Applications: 221
Non-Granted Applications: 183
Avg OA / Grant: 2.54
Last OA Observed: December 2021 (51 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1775 , 1799
Work Groups Seen: 1770 - Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification

1790 - Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	54.7%	2.54
Art Unit	25	41.7%	2.27
Group	307	37.1%	2.11
Tech Center	1,713	47.3%	2.14
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 2010; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2010	10	2	20.0%
2011	65	36	55.4%
2012	13	7	53.8%
2013	26	8	30.8%
2014	47	27	57.4%
2015	20	15	75.0%
2016	46	23	50.0%
2017	34	23	67.6%
2018	56	33	58.9%
2019	33	18	54.5%
2020	35	20	57.1%
2021	19	9	47.4%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	410	2.7%	6.1%	83.4%	3.9%
2	299	0.7%	4.0%	83.6%	9.7%
3	149	1.3%	0.7%	81.9%	14.1%
4	92	0.0%	1.1%	83.7%	15.2%
5	42	0.0%	0.0%	90.5%	9.5%
6	20	0.0%	0.0%	90.0%	10.0%
7	12	0.0%	0.0%	83.3%	16.7%
8	7	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

1.1%

2013

1.0%

2014

2.7%

2015

2.2%

2016

7.5%

2017

0.0%

2018

0.0%

2019

2.5%

2020

0.0%

2021

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