Examiner Michael B. Holmes

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2020 (67 months ago).

Examiner Michael B. Holmes appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 91.4%, they average 1.23 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile shows meaningful §101 activity.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.23

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 13 years (2008-2020)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 968
Granted Applications: 885
Non-Granted Applications: 83
Avg OA / Grant: 1.23
Last OA Observed: November 2020 (67 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2121 , 2125 , 2126 , 2129
Work Groups Seen: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	91.4%	1.23
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	75	69	92.0%
2009	81	69	85.2%
2010	79	72	91.1%
2011	89	82	92.1%
2012	68	66	97.1%
2013	67	66	98.5%
2014	63	59	93.7%
2015	75	71	94.7%
2016	85	79	92.9%
2017	82	74	90.2%
2018	115	99	86.1%
2019	50	44	88.0%
2020	39	35	89.7%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	966	19.0%	27.0%	20.4%	1.0%
2	144	32.6%	11.1%	14.6%	2.8%
3	36	25.0%	16.7%	30.6%	0.0%
4	12	33.3%	16.7%	33.3%	0.0%
5	7	57.1%	14.3%	14.3%	0.0%
6	2	50.0%	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%
7	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

48.7%

2008

9.5%

2009

1.1%

2010

1.0%

2011

27.1%

2012

6.5%

2013

11.8%

2014

15.4%

2015

4.5%

2016

22.3%

2017

72.8%

2018

13.2%

2019

2.4%

2020

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