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Examiner Christopher Fulton

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2023 (31 months ago).

Examiner Christopher Fulton appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 81.9%, they average 1.24 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 1.24
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
16 years (2008-2023)
Tech Center
2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group
2850 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
1,158
Granted Applications
948
Non-Granted Applications
210
Avg OA / Grant
1.24
Last OA Observed
November 2023 (31 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2841 , 2855 , 2856
Work Groups Seen
2840 - Electrical Circuits and Systems
2850 - Printing / Measuring and Testing

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 81.9% 1.24
Art Unit 41 65.2% 1.51
Group 372 63.2% 1.66
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 2022 2023
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 68 49 72.1%
2009 67 51 76.1%
2010 96 74 77.1%
2011 75 63 84.0%
2012 74 63 85.1%
2013 86 68 79.1%
2014 69 59 85.5%
2015 73 62 84.9%
2016 72 60 83.3%
2017 66 54 81.8%
2018 63 53 84.1%
2019 87 71 81.6%
2020 67 58 86.6%
2021 73 61 83.6%
2022 62 52 83.9%
2023 60 50 83.3%
No observed data after 2023; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 1,161 1.0% 7.7% 61.8% 8.4%
2 250 0.4% 5.2% 68.0% 6.0%
3 22 4.5% 0.0% 68.2% 9.1%
4 6 0.0% 16.7% 50.0% 0.0%
5 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2008
1.1%
2009
2.4%
2010
0.0%
2011
2.2%
2012
0.9%
2013
0.0%
2014
1.1%
2015
1.1%
2016
1.3%
2017
0.0%
2018
1.9%
2019
1.1%
2020
0.0%
2021
0.0%
2022
1.5%
2023

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