Examiner Alan Chen

Appears inactive Last observed office action: February 2017 (110 months ago).

Examiner Alan Chen appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 83.9%, they average 1.33 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §102 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 1.33

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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: 279
Granted Applications: 234
Non-Granted Applications: 45
Avg OA / Grant: 1.33
Last OA Observed: February 2017 (110 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2124 , 2129
Work Groups Seen: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	83.9%	1.33
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	7	4	57.1%
2009	43	36	83.7%
2010	29	22	75.9%
2011	29	25	86.2%
2012	34	31	91.2%
2013	36	32	88.9%
2014	36	31	86.1%
2015	40	34	85.0%
2016	24	18	75.0%
2017	1	1	100.0%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	279	6.1%	57.3%	28.7%	1.8%
2	66	13.6%	34.8%	43.9%	3.0%
3	16	6.3%	43.8%	50.0%	0.0%
4	8	12.5%	12.5%	62.5%	0.0%
5	3	0.0%	33.3%	33.3%	33.3%
6	3	0.0%	0.0%	66.7%	33.3%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

9.1%

2008

17.5%

2009

14.3%

2010

0.0%

2011

6.1%

2012

4.4%

2013

6.5%

2014

0.0%

2015

10.7%

2016

0.0%

2017

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