Examiner William M. Treat

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2011 (173 months ago).

Examiner William M. Treat appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 58.8%, they average 1.83 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 Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.83

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 4 years (2008-2011)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 119
Granted Applications: 70
Non-Granted Applications: 49
Avg OA / Grant: 1.83
Last OA Observed: November 2011 (173 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2181 , 2183
Work Groups Seen: 2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	58.8%	1.83
Art Unit	17	69.4%	1.93
Group	169	56.0%	1.88
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	32	16	50.0%
2009	38	22	57.9%
2010	26	17	65.4%
2011	23	15	65.2%
No observed data after 2011; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	119	11.8%	17.6%	54.6%	5.9%
2	63	6.3%	9.5%	66.7%	11.1%
3	29	6.9%	6.9%	58.6%	20.7%
4	13	0.0%	0.0%	61.5%	23.1%
5	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

6.3%

2008

14.9%

2009

7.7%

2010

3.7%

2011

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