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Examiner Don Le

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2022 (50 months ago).

Examiner Don Le appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 93.8%, they average 1.24 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward 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
15 years (2008-2022)
Tech Center
2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group
2840 - Electrical Circuits and Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
803
Granted Applications
753
Non-Granted Applications
50
Avg OA / Grant
1.24
Last OA Observed
April 2022 (50 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2819 , 2844
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 93.8% 1.24
Art Unit 38 72.6% 1.65
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 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 53 51 96.2%
2009 62 58 93.5%
2010 44 40 90.9%
2011 28 24 85.7%
2012 50 47 94.0%
2013 42 36 85.7%
2014 51 46 90.2%
2015 63 62 98.4%
2016 53 48 90.6%
2017 81 76 93.8%
2018 79 76 96.2%
2019 75 72 96.0%
2020 71 67 94.4%
2021 43 42 97.7%
2022 8 8 100.0%
No observed data after 2022; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 803 1.5% 28.9% 46.3% 4.0%
2 149 1.3% 24.8% 54.4% 2.7%
3 30 0.0% 13.3% 76.7% 0.0%
4 9 0.0% 22.2% 66.7% 0.0%
5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2008
2.9%
2009
2.2%
2010
9.1%
2011
3.4%
2012
0.0%
2013
3.2%
2014
2.9%
2015
0.0%
2016
0.0%
2017
1.0%
2018
0.0%
2019
1.2%
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.