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Examiner Gerald Oliver

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2019 (79 months ago).

Examiner Gerald Oliver appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 66.1%, they average 2.72 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by ยง103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average
Difficulty vs Group About Average
Difficulty vs TC About Average
Difficulty vs USPTO About Average
Average OA / Grant 2.72
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
9 years (2011-2019)
Tech Center
2600 - Communications
Group
2620 - Selective Visual Display Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
280
Granted Applications
185
Non-Granted Applications
95
Avg OA / Grant
2.72
Last OA Observed
August 2019 (79 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2617 , 2624 , 2626 , 2693 , 2698
Work Groups Seen
2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware
2620 - Selective Visual Display Systems
2690 - Videophones and Telephonic Communications / Digital Audio

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 66.1% 2.72
Art Unit 34 61.3% 2.04
Group 280 55.8% 1.99
Tech Center 1,729 59.3% 1.88
USPTO 16,116 54.8% 1.98

Grant Timeline

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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 2011; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2011 20 13 65.0%
2012 22 11 50.0%
2013 44 30 68.2%
2014 37 25 67.6%
2015 43 29 67.4%
2016 48 33 68.8%
2017 22 12 54.5%
2018 24 17 70.8%
2019 20 15 75.0%
No observed data after 2019; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 302 0.7% 11.6% 85.1% 1.0%
2 192 0.0% 3.1% 94.8% 1.0%
3 110 0.0% 2.7% 97.3% 0.0%
4 82 0.0% 1.2% 97.6% 1.2%
5 50 0.0% 4.0% 96.0% 0.0%
6 31 0.0% 3.2% 96.8% 0.0%
7 15 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
8 11 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
9 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
0.0%
2010
0.0%
2011
0.0%
2012
0.0%
2013
1.1%
2014
0.0%
2015
0.9%
2016
0.0%
2017
0.0%
2018
0.0%
2019

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