Examiner Louis Arana

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2019 (81 months ago).

Examiner Louis Arana appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 88.4%, they average 1.17 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 1.17

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 12 years (2008-2019)
Tech Center: 2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group: 2860 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 753
Granted Applications: 666
Non-Granted Applications: 87
Avg OA / Grant: 1.17
Last OA Observed: September 2019 (81 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2831 , 2858 , 2866
Work Groups Seen: 2830 - Electrical Circuits and Systems

2850 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

2860 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	88.4%	1.17
Art Unit	15	81.5%	1.57
Group	133	67.4%	1.82
Tech Center	2,370	64.7%	1.69
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	62	53	85.5%
2009	79	68	86.1%
2010	74	63	85.1%
2011	62	55	88.7%
2012	59	52	88.1%
2013	85	80	94.1%
2014	66	56	84.8%
2015	50	43	86.0%
2016	63	56	88.9%
2017	63	59	93.7%
2018	63	56	88.9%
2019	27	25	92.6%
No observed data after 2019; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	762	5.6%	25.9%	55.1%	9.7%
2	103	3.9%	35.9%	26.2%	14.6%
3	28	0.0%	25.0%	46.4%	14.3%
4	7	0.0%	14.3%	42.9%	14.3%
5	2	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

1.4%

2008

2.0%

2009

8.8%

2010

8.0%

2011

11.4%

2012

0.9%

2013

2.6%

2014

6.6%

2015

5.7%

2016

6.5%

2017

5.4%

2018

8.3%

2019

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