Examiner Rebecca Tsehaye

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

Examiner Rebecca Tsehaye appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 98.3%, they average 1.13 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §112 and elevated §112 usage.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.13

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2015-2025)
Tech Center: 2900 - Designs
Group: 2900-WG - 2900-WG

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 874
Granted Applications: 859
Non-Granted Applications: 15
Avg OA / Grant: 1.13
Last OA Observed: December 2025 (4 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2922
Work Groups Seen: 2900-WG - 2900-WG

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	98.3%	1.13
Art Unit	19	96.8%	1.20
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 2015; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2015	2	2	100.0%
2016	63	62	98.4%
2017	97	96	99.0%
2018	95	95	100.0%
2019	91	89	97.8%
2020	106	106	100.0%
2021	121	121	100.0%
2022	109	107	98.2%
2023	101	97	96.0%
2024	77	74	96.1%
2025	12	10	83.3%
No observed data after 2025; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	874	0.0%	1.9%	0.2%	90.2%
2	106	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	99.1%
3	9	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%
4	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%