Examiner Andrea Long

Appears inactive Last observed office action: January 2023 (40 months ago).

Examiner Andrea Long appears to be more difficult than most of their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 53.8%, they average 2.71 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Hard

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.71

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 16 years (2008-2023)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2170 - Graphical User Interface, Document Processing, Power, and Other

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 379
Granted Applications: 204
Non-Granted Applications: 175
Avg OA / Grant: 2.71
Last OA Observed: January 2023 (40 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2175 , 2176
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	53.8%	2.71
Art Unit	23	54.3%	2.28
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	19	10	52.6%
2009	18	5	27.8%
2010	13	4	30.8%
2011	26	16	61.5%
2012	22	10	45.5%
2013	26	11	42.3%
2014	30	18	60.0%
2015	31	19	61.3%
2016	33	18	54.5%
2017	28	15	53.6%
2018	38	20	52.6%
2019	39	23	59.0%
2020	35	22	62.9%
2021	15	11	73.3%
2022	4	1	25.0%
2023	2	1	50.0%
No observed data after 2023; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	383	2.9%	9.1%	82.5%	1.0%
2	263	1.5%	4.6%	92.0%	0.8%
3	164	1.2%	0.6%	96.3%	0.0%
4	117	4.3%	0.9%	93.2%	0.9%
5	62	0.0%	0.0%	98.4%	1.6%
6	37	2.7%	0.0%	94.6%	2.7%
7	21	4.8%	9.5%	85.7%	0.0%
8	12	0.0%	8.3%	91.7%	0.0%
9	6	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
10	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

1.7%

2008

2.3%

2009

1.6%

2010

2.7%

2011

0.0%

2012

1.9%

2013

4.2%

2014

2.2%

2015

1.1%

2016

5.4%

2017

3.5%

2018

2.5%

2019

0.0%

2020

0.0%

2021

0.0%

2022

0.0%

2023

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