Examiner Abolfazl Tabatabai

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2020 (74 months ago).

Examiner Abolfazl Tabatabai appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 91.8%, they average 1.11 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.11

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 13 years (2008-2020)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2660 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 771
Granted Applications: 708
Non-Granted Applications: 63
Avg OA / Grant: 1.11
Last OA Observed: April 2020 (74 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2624 , 2664 , 2666
Work Groups Seen: 2620 - Selective Visual Display Systems

2660 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	91.8%	1.11
Art Unit	40	65.5%	1.71
Group	289	65.3%	1.66
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	36	31	86.1%
2009	74	64	86.5%
2010	66	56	84.8%
2011	63	56	88.9%
2012	89	84	94.4%
2013	88	84	95.5%
2014	63	60	95.2%
2015	64	61	95.3%
2016	67	66	98.5%
2017	67	58	86.6%
2018	59	55	93.2%
2019	31	29	93.5%
2020	4	4	100.0%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	773	15.5%	21.6%	44.4%	2.6%
2	81	7.4%	22.2%	48.1%	2.5%
3	5	0.0%	40.0%	40.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

15.6%

2008

12.6%

2009

10.0%

2010

9.7%

2011

19.0%

2012

8.1%

2013

4.3%

2014

11.1%

2015

6.8%

2016

26.0%

2017

38.3%

2018

16.1%

2019

66.7%

2020

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