Examiner Michael P. Healey

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2014 (138 months ago).

Examiner Michael P. Healey appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 65.0%, they average 1.50 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.50

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 3 years (2012-2014)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 40
Granted Applications: 26
Non-Granted Applications: 14
Avg OA / Grant: 1.50
Last OA Observed: September 2014 (138 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	65.0%	1.50
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 2012; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2012	2	0	0.0%
2013	26	15	57.7%
2014	12	11	91.7%
No observed data after 2014; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	40	0.0%	0.0%	75.0%	25.0%
2	15	6.7%	0.0%	93.3%	0.0%
3	4	0.0%	0.0%	75.0%	25.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

0.0%

2012

0.0%

2013

8.3%

2014

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