Examiner Steven A. Friday

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2020 (71 months ago).

Examiner Steven A. Friday appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 45.6%, they average 2.27 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 Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.27

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2010-2020)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1750 - 1750

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 338
Granted Applications: 154
Non-Granted Applications: 184
Avg OA / Grant: 2.27
Last OA Observed: April 2020 (71 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1724 , 1756 , 1795
Work Groups Seen: 1720 - Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition

1750 - 1750

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

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	45.6%	2.27
Art Unit	6	52.0%	2.37
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 2010; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2010	1	0	0.0%
2011	37	9	24.3%
2012	45	21	46.7%
2013	43	16	37.2%
2014	37	18	48.6%
2015	40	19	47.5%
2016	39	19	48.7%
2017	30	16	53.3%
2018	33	18	54.5%
2019	25	13	52.0%
2020	8	5	62.5%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	354	0.8%	3.4%	61.0%	10.2%
2	221	0.9%	5.9%	79.6%	9.0%
3	117	0.0%	2.6%	80.3%	14.5%
4	70	0.0%	2.9%	85.7%	8.6%
5	35	0.0%	0.0%	88.6%	11.4%
6	27	0.0%	0.0%	96.3%	3.7%
7	12	0.0%	0.0%	91.7%	8.3%
8	8	0.0%	0.0%	87.5%	12.5%
9	3	0.0%	0.0%	66.7%	33.3%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2010

3.6%

2011

0.0%

2012

0.8%

2013

1.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

0.0%

2016

0.0%

2017

0.0%

2018

0.0%

2019

0.0%

2020

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