Examiner Mr. Tom Stevens

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2017 (99 months ago).

Examiner Mr. Tom Stevens appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 74.3%, they average 2.35 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.35

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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: 400
Granted Applications: 297
Non-Granted Applications: 103
Avg OA / Grant: 2.35
Last OA Observed: December 2017 (99 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2115 , 2121 , 2126
Work Groups Seen: 2110 - Computer Error Control, Reliability, and Control Systems

2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	74.3%	2.35
Art Unit	38	41.7%	2.16
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	14	7	50.0%
2009	44	25	56.8%
2010	63	51	81.0%
2011	26	21	80.8%
2012	54	36	66.7%
2013	48	37	77.1%
2014	39	33	84.6%
2015	33	26	78.8%
2016	46	36	78.3%
2017	33	25	75.8%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	431	2.6%	24.8%	61.0%	7.9%
2	256	2.7%	23.0%	68.0%	2.7%
3	148	0.7%	12.2%	78.4%	5.4%
4	76	2.6%	7.9%	88.2%	1.3%
5	34	0.0%	5.9%	88.2%	2.9%
6	22	0.0%	4.5%	95.5%	0.0%
7	13	0.0%	7.7%	92.3%	0.0%
8	8	0.0%	12.5%	87.5%	0.0%
9	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
10	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2.3%

2008

1.7%

2009

1.1%

2010

0.0%

2011

2.5%

2012

0.8%

2013

0.0%

2014

5.0%

2015

4.6%

2016

3.1%

2017

0.0%

2018

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