Examiner Donnie L. Crosland

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2013 (150 months ago).

Examiner Donnie L. Crosland appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 74.1%, they average 1.15 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 1.15

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 6 years (2008-2013)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 402
Granted Applications: 298
Non-Granted Applications: 104
Avg OA / Grant: 1.15
Last OA Observed: September 2013 (150 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2612 , 2685 , 2687
Work Groups Seen: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	74.1%	1.15
Art Unit	44	52.3%	1.75
Group	290	50.2%	1.92
Tech Center	1,729	59.3%	1.88
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	71	55	77.5%
2009	67	46	68.7%
2010	83	59	71.1%
2011	64	47	73.4%
2012	65	46	70.8%
2013	52	45	86.5%
No observed data after 2013; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	402	2.0%	6.2%	67.9%	6.5%
2	54	0.0%	1.9%	77.8%	7.4%
3	9	0.0%	0.0%	77.8%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

1.1%

2008

2.4%

2009

3.0%

2010

1.4%

2011

1.5%

2012

0.0%

2013

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