Examiner Scott R Gardner

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2022 (43 months ago).

Examiner Scott R Gardner appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 46.3%, they average 3.00 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group Very Hard

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 3.00

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 5 years (2018-2022)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 54
Granted Applications: 25
Non-Granted Applications: 29
Avg OA / Grant: 3.00
Last OA Observed: August 2022 (43 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2121 , 2126
Work Groups Seen: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	46.3%	3.00
Art Unit	29	34.9%	2.14
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 2018; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2018	1	1	100.0%
2019	7	3	42.9%
2020	16	7	43.8%
2021	10	2	20.0%
2022	20	12	60.0%
No observed data after 2022; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	74	0.0%	9.5%	87.8%	2.7%
2	62	0.0%	4.8%	88.7%	6.5%
3	45	0.0%	0.0%	97.8%	2.2%
4	38	0.0%	0.0%	97.4%	2.6%
5	19	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	12	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	4	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%