Examiner Reba I. Elmore

Appears inactive Last observed office action: March 2018 (99 months ago).

Examiner Reba I. Elmore appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 86.1%, they average 1.75 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §102 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 1.75

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 418
Granted Applications: 360
Non-Granted Applications: 58
Avg OA / Grant: 1.75
Last OA Observed: March 2018 (99 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2131 , 2189
Work Groups Seen: 2130 - Memory Access and Control

2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	86.1%	1.75
Art Unit	10	45.4%	1.81
Group	169	56.0%	1.88
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	36	31	86.1%
2009	43	32	74.4%
2010	47	36	76.6%
2011	56	51	91.1%
2012	39	35	89.7%
2013	47	44	93.6%
2014	36	28	77.8%
2015	41	39	95.1%
2016	20	16	80.0%
2017	49	45	91.8%
2018	4	3	75.0%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	431	6.5%	49.9%	20.4%	7.4%
2	206	6.3%	46.1%	30.6%	5.3%
3	79	5.1%	45.6%	38.0%	3.8%
4	37	2.7%	35.1%	45.9%	8.1%
5	17	0.0%	11.8%	76.5%	5.9%
6	12	0.0%	8.3%	83.3%	0.0%
7	2	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%	0.0%
8	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

7.5%

2008

6.5%

2009

15.2%

2010

5.3%

2011

2.4%

2012

8.5%

2013

6.5%

2014

2.6%

2015

4.0%

2016

2.2%

2017

0.0%

2018

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