Examiner Sivalingam Sivanesan

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2018 (90 months ago).

Examiner Sivalingam Sivanesan appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 72.9%, they average 1.73 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 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 1.73

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2009-2018)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 251
Granted Applications: 183
Non-Granted Applications: 68
Avg OA / Grant: 1.73
Last OA Observed: October 2018 (90 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2116 , 2121 , 2122 , 2125 , 2126 , 2127
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	72.9%	1.73
Art Unit	27	53.9%	1.95
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 2009; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2009	24	15	62.5%
2010	37	27	73.0%
2011	41	32	78.0%
2012	29	18	62.1%
2013	28	21	75.0%
2014	27	21	77.8%
2015	31	22	71.0%
2016	14	12	85.7%
2017	13	11	84.6%
2018	7	4	57.1%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	262	3.8%	13.4%	73.3%	6.5%
2	134	2.2%	9.7%	76.9%	6.7%
3	47	2.1%	14.9%	72.3%	10.6%
4	22	4.5%	13.6%	81.8%	0.0%
5	6	0.0%	33.3%	66.7%	0.0%
6	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

8.8%

2010

6.3%

2011

0.0%

2012

1.8%

2013

1.8%

2014

2.0%

2015

0.0%

2016

2.6%

2017

6.3%

2018

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