Examiner Thomas Dixon

Appears inactive Last observed office action: January 2017 (112 months ago).

Examiner Thomas Dixon appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 49.8%, they average 2.87 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.87

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2008-2017)
Tech Center: 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
Group: 3680 - Business Methods: Electronic Shopping and Health Care

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 321
Granted Applications: 160
Non-Granted Applications: 161
Avg OA / Grant: 2.87
Last OA Observed: January 2017 (112 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3623 , 3624 , 3684 , 3692
Work Groups Seen: 3620 - Business Methods: Incentive Programs, POS, Inventory, Accounting, Shipping

3680 - Business Methods: Electronic Shopping and Health Care

3690 - Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance and Business Cryptography

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	49.8%	2.87
Art Unit	24	36.3%	2.38
Group	288	29.2%	2.79
Tech Center	2,337	48.0%	2.11
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	22	5	22.7%
2009	32	19	59.4%
2010	51	30	58.8%
2011	38	20	52.6%
2012	66	55	83.3%
2013	34	27	79.4%
2014	22	0	0.0%
2015	18	0	0.0%
2016	35	3	8.6%
2017	3	1	33.3%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	321	2.2%	34.9%	61.4%	0.6%
2	230	0.0%	19.6%	78.3%	1.3%
3	155	3.2%	9.0%	85.8%	0.6%
4	95	1.1%	8.4%	88.4%	1.1%
5	49	2.0%	4.1%	91.8%	2.0%
6	27	11.1%	0.0%	88.9%	0.0%
7	16	12.5%	0.0%	81.3%	0.0%
8	6	16.7%	0.0%	83.3%	0.0%
9	3	33.3%	0.0%	66.7%	0.0%
10	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.6%

2009

0.8%

2010

1.8%

2011

4.0%

2012

4.6%

2013

4.3%

2014

6.6%

2015

4.1%

2016

0.0%

2017

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