Examiner Christopher Franco

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2019 (80 months ago).

Examiner Christopher Franco appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 88.5%, they average 1.86 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.86

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 6 years (2014-2019)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2190 - Inter-process Communications and Software Development

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 139
Granted Applications: 123
Non-Granted Applications: 16
Avg OA / Grant: 1.86
Last OA Observed: July 2019 (80 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2192
Work Groups Seen: 2190 - Inter-process Communications and Software Development

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	88.5%	1.86
Art Unit	26	63.2%	2.07
Group	221	57.3%	2.03
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 2014; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2014	20	16	80.0%
2015	25	20	80.0%
2016	27	27	100.0%
2017	26	24	92.3%
2018	15	11	73.3%
2019	26	25	96.2%
No observed data after 2019; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	167	0.6%	0.0%	98.2%	0.0%
2	95	1.1%	0.0%	98.9%	0.0%
3	47	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
4	14	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
5	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

0.0%

2016

0.0%

2017

1.3%

2018

1.8%

2019

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