Examiner Kanji Patel

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2017 (106 months ago).

Examiner Kanji Patel appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 93.2%, they average 1.14 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §102 and meaningful §101 activity.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.14

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2008-2017)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2660 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 709
Granted Applications: 661
Non-Granted Applications: 48
Avg OA / Grant: 1.14
Last OA Observed: August 2017 (106 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2624 , 2669
Work Groups Seen: 2620 - Selective Visual Display Systems

2660 - Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	93.2%	1.14
Art Unit	29	63.9%	1.60
Group	289	65.3%	1.66
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	56	52	92.9%
2009	76	66	86.8%
2010	75	67	89.3%
2011	84	80	95.2%
2012	90	86	95.6%
2013	67	63	94.0%
2014	74	68	91.9%
2015	62	59	95.2%
2016	88	85	96.6%
2017	37	35	94.6%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	709	18.5%	45.6%	9.0%	10.0%
2	91	22.0%	37.4%	7.7%	7.7%
3	11	18.2%	36.4%	0.0%	18.2%
4	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

35.8%

2008

26.3%

2009

25.6%

2010

25.6%

2011

17.9%

2012

21.5%

2013

11.6%

2014

5.8%

2015

6.1%

2016

2.7%

2017

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