Examiner A. J. Heinz

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2012 (165 months ago).

Examiner A. J. Heinz appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 79.7%, they average 1.32 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.32

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 5 years (2008-2012)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2620 - Selective Visual Display Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 232
Granted Applications: 185
Non-Granted Applications: 47
Avg OA / Grant: 1.32
Last OA Observed: August 2012 (165 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2627 , 2687 , 2688
Work Groups Seen: 2620 - Selective Visual Display Systems

2680 - Facsimile, Static Presentation, Telemetry, Code Generation, and Storage Systems

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	79.7%	1.32
Art Unit	39	60.6%	1.74
Group	280	55.8%	1.99
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	57	42	73.7%
2009	55	41	74.5%
2010	38	34	89.5%
2011	59	46	78.0%
2012	23	22	95.7%
No observed data after 2012; 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	232	1.7%	29.3%	45.3%	17.7%
2	60	3.3%	31.7%	43.3%	13.3%
3	8	0.0%	62.5%	37.5%	0.0%
4	2	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

0.0%

2008

1.4%

2009

7.5%

2010

1.4%

2011

0.0%

2012

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