Examiner Michael M. Thompson

Appears inactive Last observed office action: April 2015 (131 months ago).

Examiner Michael M. Thompson appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 10.4%, they average 2.64 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and occasional §101 rejections.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.64

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2008-2015)
Tech Center: 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
Group: 3620 - Business Methods: Incentive Programs, POS, Inventory, Accounting, Shipping

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 135
Granted Applications: 14
Non-Granted Applications: 121
Avg OA / Grant: 2.64
Last OA Observed: April 2015 (131 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3629
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	10.4%	2.64
Art Unit	30	21.3%	2.88
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 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	12	0	0.0%
2009	29	4	13.8%
2010	18	2	11.1%
2011	15	0	0.0%
2012	15	3	20.0%
2013	21	4	19.0%
2014	13	0	0.0%
2015	12	1	8.3%
No observed data after 2015; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	135	4.4%	25.9%	63.7%	2.2%
2	70	5.7%	14.3%	72.9%	2.9%
3	36	5.6%	19.4%	69.4%	2.8%
4	21	14.3%	9.5%	71.4%	4.8%
5	11	9.1%	18.2%	72.7%	0.0%
6	7	0.0%	14.3%	85.7%	0.0%
7	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
8	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

1.5%

2009

6.0%

2010

8.3%

2011

2.7%

2012

2.9%

2013

18.5%

2014

16.7%

2015

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