Examiner Martin Weeks

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2019 (78 months ago).

Examiner Martin Weeks appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 80.8%, they average 1.70 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 1.70

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2012-2019)
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: 208
Granted Applications: 168
Non-Granted Applications: 40
Avg OA / Grant: 1.70
Last OA Observed: November 2019 (78 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3666 , 3668
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	80.8%	1.70
Art Unit	46	59.8%	1.80
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	1	1	100.0%
2013	24	18	75.0%
2014	43	32	74.4%
2015	33	26	78.8%
2016	26	19	73.1%
2017	31	28	90.3%
2018	35	32	91.4%
2019	15	12	80.0%
No observed data after 2019; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	214	5.6%	2.8%	86.9%	3.7%
2	99	4.0%	2.0%	90.9%	2.0%
3	39	17.9%	0.0%	82.1%	0.0%
4	17	17.6%	0.0%	76.5%	0.0%
5	5	20.0%	0.0%	80.0%	0.0%
6	3	33.3%	0.0%	66.7%	0.0%
7	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2012

4.4%

2013

2.6%

2014

3.6%

2015

2.0%

2016

23.7%

2017

20.9%

2018

5.0%

2019

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