Examiner Aaron Lowenberger

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2019 (80 months ago).

Examiner Aaron Lowenberger appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 50.2%, they average 2.57 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.57

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 9 years (2011-2019)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2170 - Graphical User Interface, Document Processing, Power, and Other

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 231
Granted Applications: 116
Non-Granted Applications: 115
Avg OA / Grant: 2.57
Last OA Observed: July 2019 (80 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2173
Work Groups Seen: 2170 - Graphical User Interface, Document Processing, Power, and Other

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	50.2%	2.57
Art Unit	20	49.7%	2.68
Group	187	49.7%	2.74
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 2011; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2011	5	0	0.0%
2012	20	10	50.0%
2013	24	16	66.7%
2014	22	9	40.9%
2015	41	24	58.5%
2016	38	16	42.1%
2017	27	11	40.7%
2018	37	23	62.2%
2019	17	7	41.2%
No observed data after 2019; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	251	0.4%	2.4%	97.2%	0.0%
2	194	2.6%	8.8%	85.1%	2.6%
3	111	0.9%	0.9%	95.5%	2.7%
4	75	1.3%	2.7%	93.3%	2.7%
5	42	2.4%	4.8%	90.5%	2.4%
6	27	0.0%	3.7%	92.6%	3.7%
7	7	0.0%	0.0%	85.7%	14.3%
8	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

1.3%

2013

0.0%

2014

1.3%

2015

2.3%

2016

0.0%

2017

4.9%

2018

0.0%

2019

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