Examiner Noah Frank

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2009 (198 months ago).

Examiner Noah Frank appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 35.9%, they average 1.79 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 About Average

Average OA / Grant 1.79

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 2 years (2008-2009)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1790 - Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 117
Granted Applications: 42
Non-Granted Applications: 75
Avg OA / Grant: 1.79
Last OA Observed: November 2009 (198 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1796
Work Groups Seen: 1790 - Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	35.9%	1.79
Art Unit	29	38.7%	1.84
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	52	16	30.8%
2009	65	26	40.0%
No observed data after 2009; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	117	1.7%	1.7%	78.6%	0.9%
2	68	0.0%	1.5%	82.4%	0.0%
3	28	0.0%	0.0%	89.3%	0.0%
4	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

0.7%

2008

1.3%

2009

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