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Examiner Barbara Summons

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2021 (57 months ago).

Examiner Barbara Summons appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 89.3%, they average 1.45 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by ยง103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy
Difficulty vs Group Very Easy
Difficulty vs TC Very Easy
Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy
Average OA / Grant 1.45
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
14 years (2008-2021)
Tech Center
2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group
2840 - Electrical Circuits and Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
730
Granted Applications
652
Non-Granted Applications
78
Avg OA / Grant
1.45
Last OA Observed
September 2021 (57 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2817 , 2842 , 2843
Work Groups Seen
2810 - Semiconductors A / Memory
2840 - Electrical Circuits and Systems

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 89.3% 1.45
Art Unit 42 51.2% 1.60
Group 230 70.5% 1.61
Tech Center 2,370 64.7% 1.69
USPTO 16,116 54.8% 1.98

Grant Timeline

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
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 63 56 88.9%
2009 56 49 87.5%
2010 56 48 85.7%
2011 66 61 92.4%
2012 62 55 88.7%
2013 65 55 84.6%
2014 51 40 78.4%
2015 52 51 98.1%
2016 56 52 92.9%
2017 54 50 92.6%
2018 46 43 93.5%
2019 56 48 85.7%
2020 28 27 96.4%
2021 19 17 89.5%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 731 0.3% 9.7% 69.5% 17.0%
2 251 0.0% 10.4% 62.2% 21.9%
3 57 0.0% 12.3% 63.2% 17.5%
4 14 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 28.6%
5 2 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2007
0.0%
2008
0.0%
2009
0.0%
2010
0.0%
2011
0.0%
2012
0.0%
2013
0.0%
2014
0.0%
2015
0.0%
2016
0.0%
2017
0.0%
2018
2.8%
2019
0.0%
2020
0.0%
2021

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