Examiner Jeffery Hofsass

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2017 (101 months ago).

Examiner Jeffery Hofsass appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 86.5%, they average 1.24 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 1.24

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2008-2017)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 348
Granted Applications: 301
Non-Granted Applications: 47
Avg OA / Grant: 1.24
Last OA Observed: October 2017 (101 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2612 , 2683 , 2685
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	86.5%	1.24
Art Unit	15	58.8%	1.97
Group	112	66.5%	1.80
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	4	4	100.0%
2009	15	11	73.3%
2010	1	1	100.0%
2011	30	26	86.7%
2012	51	42	82.4%
2013	54	50	92.6%
2014	44	36	81.8%
2015	55	49	89.1%
2016	55	45	81.8%
2017	39	37	94.9%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	348	2.3%	5.5%	57.5%	2.6%
2	66	3.0%	0.0%	71.2%	1.5%
3	13	7.7%	0.0%	61.5%	7.7%
4	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
5	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

0.0%

2010

2.5%

2011

3.5%

2012

1.5%

2013

1.9%

2014

0.0%

2015

6.1%

2016

4.3%

2017

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