Examiner Bruce F. Bell

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2013 (155 months ago).

Examiner Bruce F. Bell appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 81.7%, they average 1.37 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.37

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 6 years (2008-2013)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1750 - 1750

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 465
Granted Applications: 380
Non-Granted Applications: 85
Avg OA / Grant: 1.37
Last OA Observed: April 2013 (155 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1759 , 1795
Work Groups Seen: 1750 - 1750

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

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	81.7%	1.37
Art Unit	8	60.4%	1.85
Group	94	34.8%	1.92
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	77	60	77.9%
2009	97	71	73.2%
2010	116	96	82.8%
2011	105	89	84.8%
2012	66	60	90.9%
2013	4	4	100.0%
No observed data after 2013; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	466	0.4%	26.2%	48.1%	3.2%
2	116	0.0%	24.1%	50.9%	9.5%
3	31	0.0%	25.8%	51.6%	0.0%
4	7	0.0%	28.6%	57.1%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

0.0%

2008

0.8%

2009

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

1.3%

2012

0.0%

2013

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