Examiner Hsiyue S. Hsiao

Appears inactive Last observed office action: February 2020 (76 months ago).

Examiner Hsiyue S. Hsiao appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 48.9%, they average 3.00 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Hard

Difficulty vs Group Very Hard

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 3.00

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 5 years (2016-2020)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2170 - Graphical User Interface, Document Processing, Power, and Other

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 45
Granted Applications: 22
Non-Granted Applications: 23
Avg OA / Grant: 3.00
Last OA Observed: February 2020 (76 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2179
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	48.9%	3.00
Art Unit	24	49.1%	3.00
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 2016; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2016	4	0	0.0%
2017	19	8	42.1%
2018	16	10	62.5%
2019	3	3	100.0%
2020	3	1	33.3%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	80	0.0%	7.5%	91.3%	0.0%
2	60	0.0%	6.7%	93.3%	0.0%
3	41	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
4	19	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
5	10	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%