Examiner Aaron G. Zeller

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2022 (46 months ago).

Examiner Aaron G. Zeller appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 83.3%, they average 1.40 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 1.40

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 1 years (2022-2022)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 6
Granted Applications: 5
Non-Granted Applications: 1
Avg OA / Grant: 1.40
Last OA Observed: August 2022 (46 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2659
Work Groups Seen: 2650 - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, and Audio Compression

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	83.3%	1.40
Art Unit	27	62.4%	1.91
Group	207	61.5%	1.87
Tech Center	1,729	59.3%	1.88
USPTO	16,116	54.8%	1.98

Grant Timeline

Year	Applications	Granted	Grant Rate
No observed data before 2022; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2022	6	5	83.3%
No observed data after 2022; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	14	14.3%	21.4%	64.3%	0.0%
2	3	33.3%	0.0%	66.7%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

17.6%

2022

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