Examiner Jamal A Shah

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2024 (22 months ago).

Examiner Jamal A Shah appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 86.4%, they average 1.93 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 Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.93

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 5 years (2020-2024)
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: 110
Granted Applications: 95
Non-Granted Applications: 15
Avg OA / Grant: 1.93
Last OA Observed: August 2024 (22 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3664 , 3666
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	86.4%	1.93
Art Unit	74	61.1%	1.72
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 2020; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2020	10	10	100.0%
2021	28	23	82.1%
2022	29	27	93.1%
2023	29	24	82.8%
2024	14	11	78.6%
No observed data after 2024; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	111	2.7%	13.5%	79.3%	1.8%
2	63	3.2%	7.9%	88.9%	0.0%
3	30	3.3%	0.0%	96.7%	0.0%
4	13	7.7%	0.0%	92.3%	0.0%
5	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

3.1%

2020

1.4%

2021

0.0%

2022

6.4%

2023

11.8%

2024

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