Examiner Russ Guill

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2022 (42 months ago).

Examiner Russ Guill appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 62.2%, they average 2.29 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.29

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 15 years (2008-2022)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 415
Granted Applications: 258
Non-Granted Applications: 157
Avg OA / Grant: 2.29
Last OA Observed: September 2022 (42 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2123 , 2127 , 2146 , 2147
Work Groups Seen: 2120 - Artificial Intelligence

2140 - Artificial Intelligence

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	62.2%	2.29
Art Unit	47	48.6%	1.86
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	34	21	61.8%
2009	53	35	66.0%
2010	33	22	66.7%
2011	40	27	67.5%
2012	33	19	57.6%
2013	40	20	50.0%
2014	23	13	56.5%
2015	26	13	50.0%
2016	43	26	60.5%
2017	16	12	75.0%
2018	23	15	65.2%
2019	10	8	80.0%
2020	17	12	70.6%
2021	18	13	72.2%
2022	6	2	33.3%
No observed data after 2022; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	424	17.2%	1.9%	66.5%	13.2%
2	268	13.1%	0.7%	70.1%	14.9%
3	129	12.4%	0.0%	68.2%	17.8%
4	70	11.4%	0.0%	75.7%	12.9%
5	37	8.1%	0.0%	83.8%	8.1%
6	19	0.0%	0.0%	84.2%	15.8%
7	7	0.0%	0.0%	85.7%	14.3%
8	4	0.0%	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%
9	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

23.5%

2008

12.5%

2009

6.6%

2010

17.7%

2011

10.3%

2012

6.3%

2013

2.8%

2014

8.5%

2015

20.5%

2016

26.8%

2017

30.8%

2018

9.1%

2019

10.7%

2020

8.8%

2021

25.9%

2022

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