Examiner Pritesh Patel

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2014 (140 months ago).

Examiner Pritesh Patel appears to be about average relative to their peer examiners. Their lifetime grant ratio is 64.0%, they average 2.45 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU About Average

Difficulty vs Group About Average

Difficulty vs TC About Average

Difficulty vs USPTO About Average

Average OA / Grant 2.45

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 7 years (2008-2014)
Tech Center: 3700 - Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing and Products
Group: 3760 - Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 225
Granted Applications: 144
Non-Granted Applications: 81
Avg OA / Grant: 2.45
Last OA Observed: July 2014 (140 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3763
Work Groups Seen: 3760 - Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	64.0%	2.45
Art Unit	98	55.4%	2.09
Group	377	50.6%	2.11
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	3	1	33.3%
2009	31	9	29.0%
2010	68	43	63.2%
2011	35	30	85.7%
2012	54	38	70.4%
2013	25	18	72.0%
2014	9	5	55.6%
No observed data after 2014; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	225	3.6%	7.1%	75.1%	0.9%
2	156	1.3%	3.8%	88.5%	0.0%
3	76	0.0%	3.9%	89.5%	0.0%
4	37	0.0%	5.4%	91.9%	0.0%
5	15	0.0%	13.3%	86.7%	0.0%
6	7	0.0%	14.3%	85.7%	0.0%
7	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

0.0%

2008

0.8%

2009

1.3%

2010

3.4%

2011

5.1%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

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