Examiner Alex C. Dunn

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2021 (57 months ago).

Examiner Alex C. Dunn appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 92.8%, they average 1.46 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 Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.46

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2012-2021)
Tech Center: 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
Group: 3660 - VCaR - Robot Control, Vehicle Navigation and Data Processing: Vehicles and Relative Location

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 526
Granted Applications: 488
Non-Granted Applications: 38
Avg OA / Grant: 1.46
Last OA Observed: September 2021 (57 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3663 , 3667
Work Groups Seen: 3660 - VCaR - Robot Control, Vehicle Navigation and Data Processing: Vehicles and Relative Location

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	92.8%	1.46
Art Unit	51	58.1%	1.91
Group	457	55.5%	1.86
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 2012; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2012	13	12	92.3%
2013	49	40	81.6%
2014	54	52	96.3%
2015	56	53	94.6%
2016	74	71	95.9%
2017	41	38	92.7%
2018	76	68	89.5%
2019	72	66	91.7%
2020	61	60	98.4%
2021	30	28	93.3%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	522	5.9%	25.3%	54.8%	4.8%
2	191	6.3%	25.1%	61.8%	3.1%
3	29	10.3%	17.2%	55.2%	17.2%
4	11	9.1%	27.3%	63.6%	0.0%
5	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
6	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

0.0%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

3.1%

2015

13.0%

2016

1.3%

2017

11.9%

2018

8.3%

2019

10.1%

2020

5.1%

2021

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