Examiner Sigmund Tang

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2014 (140 months ago).

Examiner Sigmund Tang appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 60.4%, they average 1.91 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.91

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 7 years (2008-2014)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 149
Granted Applications: 90
Non-Granted Applications: 59
Avg OA / Grant: 1.91
Last OA Observed: August 2014 (140 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2612 , 2684
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	60.4%	1.91
Art Unit	44	52.3%	1.75
Group	290	50.2%	1.92
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	20	11	55.0%
2009	20	12	60.0%
2010	26	18	69.2%
2011	28	13	46.4%
2012	26	15	57.7%
2013	21	17	81.0%
2014	8	4	50.0%
No observed data after 2014; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	149	0.0%	2.7%	87.9%	2.7%
2	76	0.0%	0.0%	96.1%	1.3%
3	37	0.0%	0.0%	91.9%	5.4%
4	20	0.0%	0.0%	95.0%	5.0%
5	7	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%