Examiner Simon Sing

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2016 (111 months ago).

Examiner Simon Sing appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 78.9%, they average 1.89 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 About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.89

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 9 years (2008-2016)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 508
Granted Applications: 401
Non-Granted Applications: 107
Avg OA / Grant: 1.89
Last OA Observed: December 2016 (111 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2614 , 2653
Work Groups Seen: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	78.9%	1.89
Art Unit	20	61.0%	1.70
Group	207	61.5%	1.87
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	54	30	55.6%
2009	67	48	71.6%
2010	64	44	68.8%
2011	61	50	82.0%
2012	54	43	79.6%
2013	54	47	87.0%
2014	66	60	90.9%
2015	48	42	87.5%
2016	40	37	92.5%
No observed data after 2016; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	508	4.1%	16.7%	64.8%	4.1%
2	227	3.1%	7.9%	74.9%	2.6%
3	104	1.9%	4.8%	87.5%	1.9%
4	45	2.2%	0.0%	93.3%	2.2%
5	22	0.0%	0.0%	95.5%	4.5%
6	14	0.0%	0.0%	71.4%	7.1%
7	7	0.0%	0.0%	85.7%	0.0%
8	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.8%

2008

2.5%

2009

3.1%

2010

2.0%

2011

2.0%

2012

4.0%

2013

4.0%

2014

5.6%

2015

12.8%

2016

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