Examiner B. Joan Amelunxen

Appears inactive Last observed office action: November 2017 (101 months ago).

Examiner B. Joan Amelunxen appears to be very difficult relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 32.3%, they average 2.83 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103 and meaningful §101 activity.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group Very Hard

Difficulty vs TC Very Hard

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Hard

Average OA / Grant 2.83

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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: 3690 - Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance and Business Cryptography

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 248
Granted Applications: 80
Non-Granted Applications: 168
Avg OA / Grant: 2.83
Last OA Observed: November 2017 (101 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3692 , 3693 , 3694
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	32.3%	2.83
Art Unit	27	31.4%	2.44
Group	163	34.9%	2.69
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	16	2	12.5%
2009	35	23	65.7%
2010	24	11	45.8%
2011	16	6	37.5%
2012	21	7	33.3%
2013	20	10	50.0%
2014	26	8	30.8%
2015	31	4	12.9%
2016	25	5	20.0%
2017	34	4	11.8%
No observed data after 2017; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	288	16.3%	15.6%	62.8%	2.4%
2	206	24.8%	14.1%	56.3%	2.9%
3	143	28.0%	9.1%	58.7%	2.1%
4	104	31.7%	7.7%	58.7%	1.0%
5	56	39.3%	1.8%	55.4%	1.8%
6	35	42.9%	5.7%	48.6%	2.9%
7	19	47.4%	0.0%	52.6%	0.0%
8	11	72.7%	0.0%	27.3%	0.0%
9	9	77.8%	0.0%	22.2%	0.0%
10	5	60.0%	0.0%	40.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

1.4%

2010

2.5%

2011

21.4%

2012

13.8%

2013

28.9%

2014

33.3%

2015

42.6%

2016

96.0%

2017

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