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Examiner Vip Patel

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2022 (42 months ago).

Examiner Vip Patel appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 87.4%, they average 1.10 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 1.10
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
15 years (2008-2022)
Tech Center
2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group
2870 - Optics / Photocopying

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
649
Granted Applications
567
Non-Granted Applications
82
Avg OA / Grant
1.10
Last OA Observed
September 2022 (42 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2875 , 2879 , 2889
Work Groups Seen
2870 - Optics / Photocopying
2880 - Optics / Photocopying

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 87.4% 1.10
Art Unit 17 64.9% 1.76
Group 346 63.2% 1.71
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
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 48 39 81.3%
2009 67 51 76.1%
2010 61 50 82.0%
2011 44 39 88.6%
2012 40 33 82.5%
2013 40 34 85.0%
2014 32 25 78.1%
2015 30 25 83.3%
2016 49 48 98.0%
2017 29 28 96.6%
2018 46 43 93.5%
2019 37 36 97.3%
2020 57 49 86.0%
2021 48 47 97.9%
2022 21 20 95.2%
No observed data after 2022; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 649 1.4% 6.3% 56.7% 19.3%
2 54 0.0% 11.1% 63.0% 7.4%
3 9 0.0% 33.3% 55.6% 11.1%
4 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2008
1.3%
2009
1.5%
2010
0.0%
2011
2.5%
2012
2.3%
2013
0.0%
2014
0.0%
2015
1.9%
2016
0.0%
2017
4.3%
2018
0.0%
2019
3.4%
2020
0.0%
2021
0.0%
2022

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