Examiner Fuming Wu

Appears inactive Last observed office action: June 2019 (81 months ago).

Examiner Fuming Wu appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 60.6%, they average 2.41 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 2.41

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2012-2019)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 132
Granted Applications: 80
Non-Granted Applications: 52
Avg OA / Grant: 2.41
Last OA Observed: June 2019 (81 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2122 , 2123 , 2124
Work Groups Seen: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	60.6%	2.41
Art Unit	34	40.2%	1.96
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 2012; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2012	2	1	50.0%
2013	27	20	74.1%
2014	20	13	65.0%
2015	25	15	60.0%
2016	18	10	55.6%
2017	18	6	33.3%
2018	21	14	66.7%
2019	1	1	100.0%
No observed data after 2019; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	161	7.5%	9.9%	68.3%	1.2%
2	117	23.1%	4.3%	65.0%	0.0%
3	58	19.0%	1.7%	69.0%	0.0%
4	33	12.1%	0.0%	84.8%	0.0%
5	16	18.8%	0.0%	75.0%	6.3%
6	9	11.1%	0.0%	88.9%	0.0%
7	6	16.7%	0.0%	83.3%	0.0%
8	4	50.0%	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2012

2.7%

2013

1.8%

2014

0.0%

2015

8.5%

2016

34.1%

2017

42.3%

2018

33.3%

2019

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