Examiner Bernard E. Souw

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2018 (92 months ago).

Examiner Bernard E. Souw appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 79.4%, they average 1.37 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.37

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components
Group: 2880 - Optics / Photocopying

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 267
Granted Applications: 212
Non-Granted Applications: 55
Avg OA / Grant: 1.37
Last OA Observed: October 2018 (92 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2881
Work Groups Seen: 2880 - Optics / Photocopying

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	79.4%	1.37
Art Unit	30	56.9%	1.64
Group	164	65.8%	1.71
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	50	38	76.0%
2009	45	33	73.3%
2010	26	18	69.2%
2011	24	19	79.2%
2012	32	28	87.5%
2013	25	21	84.0%
2014	18	15	83.3%
2015	18	14	77.8%
2016	11	9	81.8%
2017	14	13	92.9%
2018	4	4	100.0%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	269	7.1%	2.6%	62.5%	4.1%
2	72	2.8%	0.0%	80.6%	5.6%
3	19	5.3%	10.5%	73.7%	0.0%
4	9	0.0%	11.1%	88.9%	0.0%
5	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

1.5%

2008

1.6%

2009

2.6%

2010

9.1%

2011

8.5%

2012

5.6%

2013

11.5%

2014

7.7%

2015

14.3%

2016

18.8%

2017

0.0%

2018

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