Examiner Raza Najmuddin

Appears inactive Last observed office action: October 2016 (114 months ago).

Examiner Raza Najmuddin appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 81.0%, they average 1.39 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 1.39

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2009-2016)
Tech Center: 3700 - Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing and Products
Group: 3740 - Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 242
Granted Applications: 196
Non-Granted Applications: 46
Avg OA / Grant: 1.39
Last OA Observed: October 2016 (114 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3747
Work Groups Seen: 3740 - Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	81.0%	1.39
Art Unit	54	73.2%	1.66
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 2009; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2009	20	15	75.0%
2010	39	29	74.4%
2011	43	31	72.1%
2012	33	30	90.9%
2013	29	24	82.8%
2014	27	22	81.5%
2015	33	28	84.8%
2016	18	17	94.4%
No observed data after 2016; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	242	1.7%	10.3%	72.7%	1.2%
2	68	1.5%	7.4%	83.8%	1.5%
3	21	0.0%	4.8%	85.7%	0.0%
4	6	0.0%	16.7%	66.7%	16.7%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2009

0.0%

2010

3.3%

2011

2.3%

2012

2.6%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

5.6%

2016

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