Examiner Thomas Dixon

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2015 (126 months ago).

Examiner Thomas Dixon appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 77.0%, they average 1.77 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §103 and meaningful §101 activity.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.77

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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: 3680 - Business Methods: Electronic Shopping and Health Care

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 200
Granted Applications: 154
Non-Granted Applications: 46
Avg OA / Grant: 1.77
Last OA Observed: December 2015 (126 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3624 , 3684
Work Groups Seen: 3620 - Business Methods: Incentive Programs, POS, Inventory, Accounting, Shipping

3680 - Business Methods: Electronic Shopping and Health Care

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	77.0%	1.77
Art Unit	24	36.3%	2.38
Group	288	29.2%	2.79
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	15	14	93.3%
2010	47	40	85.1%
2011	34	29	85.3%
2012	28	23	82.1%
2013	34	28	82.4%
2014	14	7	50.0%
2015	28	13	46.4%
No observed data after 2015; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	200	19.0%	26.0%	40.0%	8.0%
2	91	20.9%	15.4%	44.0%	11.0%
3	38	21.1%	10.5%	47.4%	10.5%
4	15	33.3%	6.7%	33.3%	26.7%
5	6	50.0%	0.0%	33.3%	16.7%
6	3	33.3%	0.0%	66.7%	0.0%
7	2	0.0%	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

11.5%

2009

14.3%

2010

21.1%

2011

9.6%

2012

14.8%

2013

38.1%

2014

51.5%

2015

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