Examiner Sara Samson

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2019 (83 months ago).

Examiner Sara Samson appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 58.5%, they average 2.07 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Hard

Difficulty vs Group Very Hard

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.07

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2009-2019)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 282
Granted Applications: 165
Non-Granted Applications: 117
Avg OA / Grant: 2.07
Last OA Observed: July 2019 (83 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2612 , 2683
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	58.5%	2.07
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 2009; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2009	15	5	33.3%
2010	34	13	38.2%
2011	33	17	51.5%
2012	27	17	63.0%
2013	22	16	72.7%
2014	27	16	59.3%
2015	27	13	48.1%
2016	24	15	62.5%
2017	26	18	69.2%
2018	28	22	78.6%
2019	19	13	68.4%
No observed data after 2019; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	288	1.0%	4.9%	71.2%	3.8%
2	142	2.1%	2.1%	81.7%	3.5%
3	71	2.8%	0.0%	83.1%	1.4%
4	34	0.0%	2.9%	79.4%	5.9%
5	16	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	9	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	5	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	3	0.0%	0.0%	66.7%	33.3%
9	1	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2009

1.2%

2010

0.0%

2011

1.8%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

2.1%

2016

2.1%

2017

7.4%

2018

4.0%

2019

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