Examiner V Miller

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2020 (71 months ago).

Examiner V Miller appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 73.1%, they average 2.20 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.20

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2011-2020)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2190 - Inter-process Communications and Software Development

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 245
Granted Applications: 179
Non-Granted Applications: 66
Avg OA / Grant: 2.20
Last OA Observed: April 2020 (71 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2193 , 2197
Work Groups Seen: 2190 - Inter-process Communications and Software Development

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	73.1%	2.20
Art Unit	17	48.1%	2.23
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 2011; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2011	5	4	80.0%
2012	21	16	76.2%
2013	21	12	57.1%
2014	38	16	42.1%
2015	22	16	72.7%
2016	40	33	82.5%
2017	30	25	83.3%
2018	41	33	80.5%
2019	16	14	87.5%
2020	11	10	90.9%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	249	2.0%	2.0%	93.6%	0.4%
2	162	1.2%	0.6%	96.9%	0.0%
3	95	7.4%	0.0%	89.5%	0.0%
4	58	8.6%	0.0%	91.4%	0.0%
5	33	6.1%	0.0%	93.9%	0.0%
6	17	5.9%	0.0%	94.1%	0.0%
7	8	12.5%	0.0%	87.5%	0.0%
8	2	50.0%	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%
9	2	50.0%	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2011

1.1%

2012

1.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

1.2%

2016

16.0%

2017

16.1%

2018

0.0%

2019

0.0%

2020

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