Examiner Kalpana Bharadwaj

Appears inactive Last observed office action: February 2017 (111 months ago).

Examiner Kalpana Bharadwaj appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 85.0%, they average 1.64 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.64

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2008-2017)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 400
Granted Applications: 340
Non-Granted Applications: 60
Avg OA / Grant: 1.64
Last OA Observed: February 2017 (111 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2122 , 2129
Work Groups Seen: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	85.0%	1.64
Art Unit	33	58.4%	1.89
Group	316	48.6%	1.98
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	49	35	71.4%
2009	51	42	82.4%
2010	31	26	83.9%
2011	32	28	87.5%
2012	39	34	87.2%
2013	42	38	90.5%
2014	58	49	84.5%
2015	48	43	89.6%
2016	47	42	89.4%
2017	3	3	100.0%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	401	0.7%	31.7%	64.1%	1.5%
2	175	9.1%	26.9%	54.9%	5.7%
3	56	5.4%	23.2%	64.3%	5.4%
4	12	0.0%	25.0%	66.7%	0.0%
5	6	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%	0.0%
6	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2.2%

2008

5.7%

2009

0.0%

2010

1.7%

2011

1.4%

2012

7.4%

2013

6.6%

2014

0.0%

2015

5.6%

2016

0.0%

2017

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