Examiner Carl Lobo

Grant ratio: 19.4% (2nd percentile in Art Unit 2179 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 4.45. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: May 2021
Grant ratio 19.4%
Average office actions / grant 4.45
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
92144
Primary art unit
2179
Work group
2170
Technology center
2100
Applications
103
Granted applications
20

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 48.0% 3.02
Group 190 48.6% 2.73
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.63 522 office actions across 144 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 144 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 19 13.2%
2 OAs 40 27.8%
3 OAs 18 12.5%
4 OAs 25 17.4%
5+ OAs 42 29.2%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 20.0% 2015 2016: 8.3% 2016 2017: 24.0% 2017 2018: 17.6% 2018 2019: 22.7% 2019 2020: 23.5% 2020 2021: 0.0% 2021

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20155120.0%
20161218.3%
201725624.0%
201817317.6%
201922522.7%
202017423.5%
2021500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 144 0.0% 10.4% 89.6% 0.0%
Action 2 125 1.6% 4.8% 92.8% 0.8%
Action 3 85 0.0% 2.4% 97.6% 0.0%
Action 4 67 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 42 0.0% 2.4% 97.6% 0.0%
Action 6 32 0.0% 6.3% 90.6% 0.0%
Action 7 14 0.0% 0.0% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 8 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.4% 2 of 522 office actions
Change N/A Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
3.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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