Examiner Soheila Davanlou
Examiner Soheila Davanlou appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 55.1%, they average 3.64 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.
Difficulty vs AU
Very Hard
Difficulty vs Group
Very Hard
Difficulty vs TC
Very Hard
Difficulty vs USPTO
About Average
Average OA / Grant
3.64
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Examiner Details
- Observed Examiner Years
- 17 years (2009-2025)
- Tech Center
- 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
- Group
- 2150 - Databases and File Management
Metrics
- Applications Evaluated
- 385
- Granted Applications
- 212
- Non-Granted Applications
- 173
- Avg OA / Grant
- 3.64
- Last OA Observed
- February 2025 (13 months ago)
- Work Groups Seen
Context Comparison
| Scope | Examiners | Lifetime Grant Ratio | Avg OA / Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| This Examiner | 1 | 55.1% | 3.64 |
| Art Unit | 13 | 71.3% | 2.51 |
| Group | 120 | 60.4% | 2.66 |
| 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 2009; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset. | |||
| 2009 | 6 | 6 | 100.0% |
| 2010 | 14 | 9 | 64.3% |
| 2011 | 28 | 18 | 64.3% |
| 2012 | 10 | 3 | 30.0% |
| 2013 | 13 | 6 | 46.2% |
| 2014 | 26 | 7 | 26.9% |
| 2015 | 17 | 6 | 35.3% |
| 2016 | 30 | 10 | 33.3% |
| 2017 | 30 | 14 | 46.7% |
| 2018 | 31 | 20 | 64.5% |
| 2019 | 22 | 11 | 50.0% |
| 2020 | 30 | 16 | 53.3% |
| 2021 | 20 | 12 | 60.0% |
| 2022 | 26 | 16 | 61.5% |
| 2023 | 32 | 22 | 68.8% |
| 2024 | 42 | 28 | 66.7% |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 | 100.0% |
| No observed data after 2025; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work. | |||
212 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.
Rejection Timeline
| OA # | Office Actions | § 101 Percentage | § 102 Percentage | § 103 Percentage | § 112 Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 408 | 0.2% | 15.0% | 83.6% | 0.2% |
| 2 | 328 | 7.6% | 7.0% | 85.4% | 0.0% |
| 3 | 262 | 5.3% | 9.9% | 84.7% | 0.0% |
| 4 | 199 | 5.5% | 10.1% | 84.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 | 133 | 3.0% | 8.3% | 88.0% | 0.0% |
| 6 | 91 | 0.0% | 7.7% | 92.3% | 0.0% |
| 7 | 57 | 0.0% | 5.3% | 94.7% | 0.0% |
| 8 | 33 | 0.0% | 6.1% | 93.9% | 0.0% |
| 9 | 18 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% |
| 10 | 14 | 14.3% | 0.0% | 85.7% | 0.0% |
§ 101 Yearly Trend
2014: Alice
2019: PEG
2024: AI Examples
Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.