Examiner Pankti Patel

Appears inactive Last observed office action: January 2015 (135 months ago).

Examiner Pankti Patel appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 82.4%, they average 1.67 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.67

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 5 years (2011-2015)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1770 - Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 153
Granted Applications: 126
Non-Granted Applications: 27
Avg OA / Grant: 1.67
Last OA Observed: January 2015 (135 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1776
Work Groups Seen: 1770 - Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	82.4%	1.67
Art Unit	29	61.9%	1.71
Group	173	53.1%	1.94
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 2011; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2011	24	18	75.0%
2012	48	42	87.5%
2013	48	39	81.3%
2014	32	26	81.3%
2015	1	1	100.0%
No observed data after 2015; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	153	0.0%	7.2%	86.3%	3.9%
2	64	0.0%	4.7%	87.5%	4.7%
3	25	0.0%	8.0%	88.0%	0.0%
4	12	0.0%	8.3%	83.3%	0.0%
5	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%