Examiner Examiner Maccormac

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2018 (89 months ago).

Examiner Examiner Maccormac appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 95.8%, they average 1.63 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §112 and elevated §112 usage.

Difficulty vs AU Very Hard

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.63

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 2900 - Designs
Group: 2900-WG - 2900-WG

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 936
Granted Applications: 897
Non-Granted Applications: 39
Avg OA / Grant: 1.63
Last OA Observed: November 2018 (89 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2914 , 2918
Work Groups Seen: 2900-WG - 2900-WG

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	95.8%	1.63
Art Unit	23	96.0%	1.24
Group	461	95.1%	1.19
Tech Center	486	94.9%	1.20
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	39	38	97.4%
2009	50	45	90.0%
2010	72	70	97.2%
2011	81	78	96.3%
2012	134	133	99.3%
2013	125	119	95.2%
2014	111	104	93.7%
2015	131	130	99.2%
2016	105	99	94.3%
2017	54	48	88.9%
2018	34	33	97.1%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	938	0.0%	0.3%	1.1%	94.1%
2	420	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	95.0%
3	104	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	97.1%
4	50	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	94.0%
5	17	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	94.1%
6	7	0.0%	14.3%	0.0%	85.7%
7	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%