Examiner Joshua Neveln

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2022 (45 months ago).

Examiner Joshua Neveln appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 68.9%, they average 2.34 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.34

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 9 years (2014-2022)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2110 - Computer Error Control, Reliability, and Control Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 212
Granted Applications: 146
Non-Granted Applications: 66
Avg OA / Grant: 2.34
Last OA Observed: September 2022 (45 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2116 , 2186
Work Groups Seen: 2110 - Computer Error Control, Reliability, and Control Systems

2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	68.9%	2.34
Art Unit	34	67.7%	1.81
Group	203	68.7%	1.68
Tech Center	1,706	55.9%	2.19
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 2014; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2014	16	7	43.8%
2015	33	24	72.7%
2016	25	14	56.0%
2017	34	28	82.4%
2018	24	18	75.0%
2019	35	17	48.6%
2020	21	18	85.7%
2021	11	8	72.7%
2022	13	12	92.3%
No observed data after 2022; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	220	1.4%	2.3%	93.6%	1.8%
2	159	3.8%	3.1%	91.2%	0.6%
3	66	3.0%	6.1%	89.4%	1.5%
4	36	8.3%	0.0%	88.9%	2.8%
5	17	11.8%	0.0%	88.2%	0.0%
6	12	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	4	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2014

1.4%

2015

1.3%

2016

9.7%

2017

7.7%

2018

0.0%

2019

0.0%

2020

0.0%

2021

3.8%

2022

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