Examiner Creighton Smith

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2018 (93 months ago).

Examiner Creighton Smith appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 90.2%, they average 1.60 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 1.60

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 676
Granted Applications: 610
Non-Granted Applications: 66
Avg OA / Grant: 1.60
Last OA Observed: September 2018 (93 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2614 , 2656
Work Groups Seen: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	90.2%	1.60
Art Unit	36	69.6%	1.67
Group	207	61.5%	1.87
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	37	31	83.8%
2009	48	44	91.7%
2010	60	54	90.0%
2011	60	51	85.0%
2012	74	67	90.5%
2013	72	67	93.1%
2014	61	58	95.1%
2015	70	64	91.4%
2016	71	66	93.0%
2017	79	66	83.5%
2018	44	42	95.5%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	701	2.0%	13.1%	47.2%	15.8%
2	278	0.7%	10.4%	63.7%	9.0%
3	93	0.0%	12.9%	76.3%	3.2%
4	44	0.0%	13.6%	75.0%	2.3%
5	18	0.0%	11.1%	77.8%	5.6%
6	11	0.0%	9.1%	90.9%	0.0%
7	6	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	4	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2.7%

2008

0.0%

2009

3.2%

2010

3.0%

2011

3.4%

2012

1.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

1.9%

2015

0.8%

2016

0.0%

2017

0.0%

2018

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