Examiner Luke Osborne

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2014 (139 months ago).

Examiner Luke Osborne appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 66.5%, they average 2.18 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 Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.18

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 7 years (2008-2014)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 179
Granted Applications: 119
Non-Granted Applications: 60
Avg OA / Grant: 2.18
Last OA Observed: August 2014 (139 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2123
Work Groups Seen: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	66.5%	2.18
Art Unit	47	48.6%	1.86
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	24	14	58.3%
2009	27	16	59.3%
2010	32	17	53.1%
2011	24	17	70.8%
2012	32	24	75.0%
2013	28	21	75.0%
2014	12	10	83.3%
No observed data after 2014; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	179	6.7%	39.7%	45.3%	5.6%
2	99	4.0%	35.4%	54.5%	2.0%
3	47	0.0%	31.9%	61.7%	4.3%
4	28	0.0%	35.7%	64.3%	0.0%
5	13	0.0%	23.1%	69.2%	7.7%
6	6	0.0%	16.7%	83.3%	0.0%
7	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

4.8%

2008

2.9%

2009

1.2%

2010

2.6%

2011

6.5%

2012

9.3%

2013

7.7%

2014

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