Examiner Susan Chen

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2018 (92 months ago).

Examiner Susan Chen appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 76.8%, they average 2.42 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 About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.42

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2160 - Databases and File Management

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 423
Granted Applications: 325
Non-Granted Applications: 98
Avg OA / Grant: 2.42
Last OA Observed: July 2018 (92 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2152 , 2154 , 2161 , 2168
Work Groups Seen: 2150 - Databases and File Management

2160 - Databases and File Management

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	76.8%	2.42
Art Unit	19	63.1%	2.51
Group	193	61.2%	2.52
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	35	18	51.4%
2009	41	31	75.6%
2010	39	30	76.9%
2011	43	37	86.0%
2012	38	32	84.2%
2013	40	35	87.5%
2014	48	38	79.2%
2015	47	38	80.9%
2016	45	34	75.6%
2017	28	18	64.3%
2018	19	14	73.7%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	446	1.8%	46.2%	45.5%	5.2%
2	300	7.3%	29.3%	47.0%	10.0%
3	158	5.1%	19.6%	60.8%	8.2%
4	76	2.6%	17.1%	61.8%	6.6%
5	40	2.5%	12.5%	70.0%	10.0%
6	26	11.5%	11.5%	57.7%	7.7%
7	13	0.0%	15.4%	69.2%	0.0%
8	6	16.7%	33.3%	33.3%	16.7%
9	4	0.0%	25.0%	75.0%	0.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

3.0%

2008

1.1%

2009

3.0%

2010

0.9%

2011

3.4%

2012

0.9%

2013

6.3%

2014

8.7%

2015

2.1%

2016

12.8%

2017

5.6%

2018

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