Examiner Harish T. Dass

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2016 (117 months ago).

Examiner Harish T. Dass appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 46.8%, they average 2.50 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 Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.50

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 9 years (2008-2016)
Tech Center: 3600 - Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review
Group: 3690 - Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance and Business Cryptography

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 263
Granted Applications: 123
Non-Granted Applications: 140
Avg OA / Grant: 2.50
Last OA Observed: October 2016 (117 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3692 , 3695
Work Groups Seen: 3690 - Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance and Business Cryptography

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	46.8%	2.50
Art Unit	27	30.5%	2.96
Group	163	34.5%	2.69
Tech Center	2,366	46.9%	2.11
USPTO	16,347	53.5%	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	16	6	37.5%
2009	40	24	60.0%
2010	29	15	51.7%
2011	35	23	65.7%
2012	36	26	72.2%
2013	32	20	62.5%
2014	27	3	11.1%
2015	26	2	7.7%
2016	22	4	18.2%
No observed data after 2016; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	263	4.6%	3.8%	87.8%	2.7%
2	184	7.6%	1.6%	87.5%	1.6%
3	111	11.7%	0.9%	85.6%	1.8%
4	78	17.9%	0.0%	78.2%	2.6%
5	35	17.1%	2.9%	77.1%	2.9%
6	25	12.0%	0.0%	88.0%	0.0%
7	13	15.4%	7.7%	76.9%	0.0%
8	7	14.3%	0.0%	85.7%	0.0%
9	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

9.3%

2009

3.2%

2010

2.1%

2011

2.1%

2012

4.7%

2013

10.8%

2014

41.7%

2015

37.0%

2016

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