Examiner Shirley Lu

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2021 (56 months ago).

Examiner Shirley Lu appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 75.8%, they average 1.62 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 1.62

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 14 years (2008-2021)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 592
Granted Applications: 449
Non-Granted Applications: 143
Avg OA / Grant: 1.62
Last OA Observed: July 2021 (56 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2612 , 2681 , 2684 , 2686
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	75.8%	1.62
Art Unit	11	75.5%	1.64
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	29	19	65.5%
2009	32	13	40.6%
2010	38	11	28.9%
2011	49	35	71.4%
2012	25	18	72.0%
2013	38	28	73.7%
2014	47	31	66.0%
2015	60	47	78.3%
2016	51	47	92.2%
2017	59	48	81.4%
2018	54	53	98.1%
2019	47	45	95.7%
2020	47	40	85.1%
2021	16	14	87.5%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	592	2.7%	3.5%	81.8%	2.9%
2	208	1.0%	4.8%	88.5%	1.4%
3	89	0.0%	4.5%	93.3%	1.1%
4	43	0.0%	2.3%	97.7%	0.0%
5	20	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	12	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	7	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	4	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

0.0%

2010

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

0.0%

2013

1.4%

2014

2.8%

2015

3.2%

2016

4.2%

2017

8.5%

2018

6.5%

2019

1.3%

2020

0.0%

2021

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