Examiner Courtney Stopp

Appears inactive Last observed office action: June 2017 (108 months ago).

Examiner Courtney Stopp appears to be easier than most of their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 49.1%, they average 2.04 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 Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.04

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 10 years (2008-2017)
Tech Center: 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
Group: 3620 - Business Methods: Incentive Programs, POS, Inventory, Accounting, Shipping

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 228
Granted Applications: 112
Non-Granted Applications: 116
Avg OA / Grant: 2.04
Last OA Observed: June 2017 (108 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3625 , 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	49.1%	2.04
Art Unit	44	36.7%	2.51
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	3	1	33.3%
2009	43	16	37.2%
2010	31	20	64.5%
2011	28	14	50.0%
2012	35	20	57.1%
2013	23	11	47.8%
2014	27	14	51.9%
2015	24	7	29.2%
No observed data for 2016.
2017	14	9	64.3%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	228	0.9%	33.8%	63.2%	0.9%
2	129	4.7%	30.2%	63.6%	1.6%
3	53	7.5%	24.5%	67.9%	0.0%
4	30	6.7%	16.7%	70.0%	6.7%
5	15	13.3%	26.7%	60.0%	0.0%
6	5	40.0%	0.0%	40.0%	20.0%
7	3	33.3%	0.0%	33.3%	33.3%
8	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

1.5%

2010

0.0%

2011

0.0%

2012

0.0%

2013

14.0%

2014

19.4%

2015

100.0%

2016

17.6%

2017

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