Examiner Mary Malley

Potentially inactive Last observed office action: December 2025 (4 months ago).

Examiner Mary Malley appears to be more difficult than most of their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 94.5%, they average 1.53 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 Very Hard

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.53

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2016-2025)
Tech Center: 2900 - Designs
Group: 2900-WG - 2900-WG

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 470
Granted Applications: 444
Non-Granted Applications: 26
Avg OA / Grant: 1.53
Last OA Observed: December 2025 (4 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2914 , 2924 , 2936
Work Groups Seen: 2900-WG - 2900-WG

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	94.5%	1.53
Art Unit	29	95.5%	1.22
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 2016; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2016	13	13	100.0%
2017	58	49	84.5%
2018	97	94	96.9%
2019	98	96	98.0%
2020	78	74	94.9%
2021	63	63	100.0%
2022	37	36	97.3%
2023	19	16	84.2%
2024	1	1	100.0%
2025	6	2	33.3%
No observed data after 2025; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	468	0.0%	5.6%	1.3%	80.3%
2	181	0.0%	4.4%	1.7%	91.7%
3	43	0.0%	2.3%	4.7%	88.4%
4	16	0.0%	0.0%	12.5%	87.5%
5	2	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%
6	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%