Examiner Ernest Estes

Appears inactive Last observed office action: January 2014 (149 months ago).

Examiner Ernest Estes appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 66.7%, they average 1.38 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.38

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 3 years (2012-2014)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 36
Granted Applications: 24
Non-Granted Applications: 12
Avg OA / Grant: 1.38
Last OA Observed: January 2014 (149 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2658
Work Groups Seen: 2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	66.7%	1.38
Art Unit	23	62.1%	2.01
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 2012; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2012	12	10	83.3%
2013	22	13	59.1%
2014	2	1	50.0%
No observed data after 2014; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	36	2.8%	2.8%	94.4%	0.0%
2	15	6.7%	0.0%	93.3%	0.0%
3	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
4	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

4.8%

2012

3.2%

2013

0.0%

2014

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