Examiner Trevor M Love

Grant ratio: 38.6% (69th percentile in Art Unit 1611 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.86. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 38.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.86
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
85016
Primary art unit
1611
Work group
1610
Technology center
1600
Applications
740
Granted applications
286
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5259
Supervisor
Bethany Barham
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6175

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 23.1% 2.51
Group 217 31.1% 2.42
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.84 2,102 office actions across 740 applications
Applications with office actions 96.4% 713 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 27 3.6%
1 OA 210 28.4%
2 OAs 196 26.5%
3 OAs 97 13.1%
4 OAs 77 10.4%
5+ OAs 133 18.0%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 4.0% 2008 2009: 11.1% 2009 2010: 15.4% 2010 2011: 23.8% 2011 2012: 34.4% 2012 2013: 54.5% 2013 2014: 52.3% 2014 2015: 41.7% 2015 2016: 55.3% 2016 2017: 41.9% 2017 2018: 36.1% 2018 2019: 59.5% 2019 2020: 59.0% 2020 2021: 54.8% 2021 2022: 51.1% 2022 2023: 70.6% 2023 2024: 50.0% 2024 2025: 13.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20082514.0%
200936411.1%
201039615.4%
2011421023.8%
2012612134.4%
2013442454.5%
2014442352.3%
2015361541.7%
2016382155.3%
2017311341.9%
2018361336.1%
2019372259.5%
2020392359.0%
2021311754.8%
2022452351.1%
2023342470.6%
2024402050.0%
202544613.6%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 713 0.8% 9.8% 65.9% 0.7%
Action 2 503 0.2% 10.5% 73.2% 1.0%
Action 3 307 0.3% 13.7% 73.9% 0.3%
Action 4 210 0.0% 13.3% 77.1% 0.0%
Action 5 133 0.0% 9.0% 73.7% 0.8%
Action 6 95 0.0% 4.2% 78.9% 1.1%
Action 7 57 0.0% 8.8% 86.0% 0.0%
Action 8 35 0.0% 5.7% 91.4% 0.0%
Action 9 20 0.0% 5.0% 80.0% 10.0%
Action 10 12 0.0% 8.3% 66.7% 16.7%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 276 office actions
All years 0.4% 8 of 2,102 office actions
Change -0.4 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.8%
0.5%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
1.2%
2019: PEG
1.0%
1.2%
0.0%
1.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 42. Merits outcomes: 30 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 9 reversed.

Full reversal rate
21.4% 9/42 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
28.6% 12/42 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.2 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 25, 2025 17/344,790 Affirmed §102 · §103
Nov. 7, 2025 17/011,054 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 19, 2024 16/130,055 Affirmed §103
Mar. 11, 2024 16/599,079 Affirmed §102 · §103
Dec. 20, 2023 16/919,470 Affirmed §103
Oct. 8, 2021 12/837,341 Affirmed §103
Sep. 7, 2021 16/149,759 Affirmed §103
Apr. 7, 2021 13/867,308 Reversed §103
Feb. 22, 2021 13/863,001 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Jan. 11, 2021 14/291,401 Affirmed §103
Aug. 19, 2020 14/512,071 Reversed §103 · §112
May. 6, 2020 14/772,961 Affirmed §103 · §112

The examiner match uses the last recorded office action before the decision. Reversal rates exclude rehearings, remands, dismissals, and other decisions that did not reach the merits. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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