Examiner Glenn Richman

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2018 (94 months ago).

Examiner Glenn Richman appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 81.9%, they average 1.36 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 1.36

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 3700 - Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing and Products
Group: 3760 - Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 752
Granted Applications: 616
Non-Granted Applications: 136
Avg OA / Grant: 1.36
Last OA Observed: July 2018 (94 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 3764
Work Groups Seen: 3760 - Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	81.9%	1.36
Art Unit	16	64.1%	1.52
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	65	42	64.6%
2009	69	46	66.7%
2010	64	49	76.6%
2011	79	63	79.7%
2012	87	80	92.0%
2013	57	47	82.5%
2014	68	51	75.0%
2015	48	45	93.8%
2016	83	74	89.2%
2017	88	81	92.0%
2018	44	38	86.4%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	775	2.5%	14.2%	57.2%	3.2%
2	196	0.5%	9.7%	72.4%	1.0%
3	53	1.9%	9.4%	77.4%	0.0%
4	16	6.3%	6.3%	87.5%	0.0%
5	7	0.0%	14.3%	85.7%	0.0%
6	3	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

2.1%

2010

0.9%

2011

2.7%

2012

2.9%

2013

2.6%

2014

3.9%

2015

3.4%

2016

1.9%

2017

4.5%

2018

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