Examiner Rebecca Lee

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2017 (105 months ago).

Examiner Rebecca Lee appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 38.2%, they average 3.28 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Hard

Difficulty vs Group Very Hard

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 3.28

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2008-2017)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1730 - Metallurgy, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 592
Granted Applications: 226
Non-Granted Applications: 366
Avg OA / Grant: 3.28
Last OA Observed: August 2017 (105 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1734 , 1793
Work Groups Seen: 1730 - Metallurgy, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography

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

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	38.2%	3.28
Art Unit	22	55.8%	2.13
Group	185	51.5%	1.97
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	8	5	62.5%
2009	44	14	31.8%
2010	44	13	29.5%
2011	63	24	38.1%
2012	56	16	28.6%
2013	97	36	37.1%
2014	94	36	38.3%
2015	79	38	48.1%
2016	67	27	40.3%
2017	40	17	42.5%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	592	0.5%	0.8%	74.7%	1.0%
2	490	0.0%	1.4%	76.7%	2.4%
3	303	0.0%	0.7%	79.5%	3.0%
4	214	0.5%	0.5%	79.0%	1.9%
5	118	0.0%	0.8%	75.4%	5.9%
6	71	0.0%	0.0%	73.2%	7.0%
7	37	0.0%	2.7%	67.6%	21.6%
8	23	0.0%	4.3%	65.2%	13.0%
9	8	0.0%	0.0%	75.0%	12.5%
10	6	0.0%	0.0%	66.7%	16.7%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

1.1%

2009

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

0.3%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.5%

2015

0.0%

2016

0.0%

2017

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