Examiner Joy Weber

Appears inactive Last observed office action: February 2020 (74 months ago).

Examiner Joy Weber appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 56.6%, they average 3.12 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 3.12

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2013-2020)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2170 - Graphical User Interface, Document Processing, Power, and Other

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 175
Granted Applications: 99
Non-Granted Applications: 76
Avg OA / Grant: 3.12
Last OA Observed: February 2020 (74 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	56.6%	3.12
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 2013; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2013	11	5	45.5%
2014	25	15	60.0%
2015	24	11	45.8%
2016	28	16	57.1%
2017	30	18	60.0%
2018	22	13	59.1%
2019	33	19	57.6%
2020	2	2	100.0%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	185	0.5%	23.8%	75.7%	0.0%
2	153	7.2%	11.8%	70.6%	9.8%
3	99	5.1%	5.1%	86.9%	3.0%
4	66	3.0%	4.5%	84.8%	7.6%
5	28	0.0%	0.0%	92.9%	7.1%
6	13	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	4	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	2	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%	0.0%
10	1	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2013

3.5%

2014

3.5%

2015

4.6%

2016

2.3%

2017

11.6%

2018

3.1%

2019

0.0%

2020

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