Examiner Joshua Benitez

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2015 (126 months ago).

Examiner Joshua Benitez appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 72.8%, they average 1.70 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.70

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2008-2015)
Tech Center: 2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group: 2850 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 287
Granted Applications: 209
Non-Granted Applications: 78
Avg OA / Grant: 1.70
Last OA Observed: October 2015 (126 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2829 , 2834 , 2858 , 2867
Work Groups Seen: 2820 - Semiconductors A / Memory

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	72.8%	1.70
Art Unit	40	58.6%	1.84
Group	372	63.2%	1.66
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	41	24	58.5%
2009	48	31	64.6%
2010	57	52	91.2%
2011	47	34	72.3%
2012	76	60	78.9%
2013	9	8	88.9%
No observed data for 2014.
2015	9	0	0.0%
No observed data after 2015; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	287	1.0%	14.3%	77.0%	4.9%
2	123	0.8%	11.4%	75.6%	4.9%
3	44	2.3%	6.8%	86.4%	2.3%
4	11	0.0%	9.1%	90.9%	0.0%
5	4	0.0%	25.0%	75.0%	0.0%
6	1	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

2.3%

2010

0.0%

2011

2.5%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2015

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