Examiner Ernest A. Jackson

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2015 (125 months ago).

Examiner Ernest A. Jackson appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 39.5%, they average 2.49 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 Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.49

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 7 years (2009-2015)
Tech Center: 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
Group: 3620 - Business Methods: Incentive Programs, POS, Inventory, Accounting, Shipping

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 119
Granted Applications: 47
Non-Granted Applications: 72
Avg OA / Grant: 2.49
Last OA Observed: October 2015 (125 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3623
Work Groups Seen: 3620 - Business Methods: Incentive Programs, POS, Inventory, Accounting, Shipping

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	39.5%	2.49
Art Unit	43	27.8%	2.96
Group	362	27.1%	2.85
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 2009; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2009	8	1	12.5%
2010	27	11	40.7%
2011	17	11	64.7%
2012	18	14	77.8%
2013	15	9	60.0%
2014	13	1	7.7%
2015	21	0	0.0%
No observed data after 2015; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	121	0.0%	10.7%	84.3%	0.0%
2	90	15.6%	3.3%	77.8%	2.2%
3	56	5.4%	0.0%	92.9%	1.8%
4	30	6.7%	3.3%	86.7%	3.3%
5	10	0.0%	0.0%	90.0%	10.0%
6	6	0.0%	0.0%	83.3%	16.7%
7	3	33.3%	0.0%	66.7%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2.7%

2009

7.4%

2010

4.4%

2011

8.1%

2012

2.3%

2013

6.7%

2014

13.8%

2015

0.0%

2016

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