Examiner Stephen Elmore

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2017 (103 months ago).

Examiner Stephen Elmore appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 94.9%, they average 1.21 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile shows meaningful §101 activity and elevated §112 usage.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.21

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2008-2017)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 273
Granted Applications: 259
Non-Granted Applications: 14
Avg OA / Grant: 1.21
Last OA Observed: October 2017 (103 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2131 , 2133 , 2138 , 2185 , 2188
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	94.9%	1.21
Art Unit	10	25.0%	1.74
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	21	20	95.2%
2009	34	31	91.2%
2010	31	31	100.0%
2011	23	19	82.6%
2012	24	22	91.7%
2013	31	31	100.0%
2014	35	35	100.0%
2015	30	28	93.3%
2016	22	22	100.0%
2017	22	20	90.9%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	273	23.8%	15.4%	12.5%	23.8%
2	51	29.4%	13.7%	23.5%	17.6%
3	10	10.0%	30.0%	50.0%	10.0%
4	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

9.4%

2008

5.0%

2009

16.2%

2010

36.7%

2011

32.1%

2012

42.1%

2013

43.9%

2014

28.9%

2015

19.2%

2016

0.0%

2017

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