Examiner Mohammad M. Ali

Appears inactive Last observed office action: June 2018 (93 months ago).

Examiner Mohammad M. Ali appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 73.0%, they average 1.61 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.61

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 3700 - Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing and Products
Group: 3740 - Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 1,368
Granted Applications: 999
Non-Granted Applications: 369
Avg OA / Grant: 1.61
Last OA Observed: June 2018 (93 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3744 , 3784
Work Groups Seen: 3740 - Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems

3780 - Body Treatment, Kinesitherapy, and Exercising

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	73.0%	1.61
Art Unit	62	35.3%	2.15
Group	447	58.2%	1.86
Tech Center	2,632	49.9%	2.01
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	88	16	18.2%
2009	111	38	34.2%
2010	174	127	73.0%
2011	179	131	73.2%
2012	174	149	85.6%
2013	157	128	81.5%
2014	129	109	84.5%
2015	116	104	89.7%
2016	85	70	82.4%
2017	126	103	81.7%
2018	29	24	82.8%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	1,431	0.7%	11.9%	78.2%	1.5%
2	516	0.4%	8.3%	84.3%	1.4%
3	219	0.9%	6.4%	87.7%	1.4%
4	116	0.9%	5.2%	90.5%	0.9%
5	44	0.0%	11.4%	81.8%	0.0%
6	22	4.5%	4.5%	77.3%	4.5%
7	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

1.0%

2008

0.3%

2009

0.8%

2010

0.4%

2011

0.5%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.6%

2015

2.1%

2016

2.0%

2017

0.0%

2018

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