Examiner Nicoletta Kennedy

Grant ratio: 5.0% (7th percentile in Art Unit 1611 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: April 2011
Grant ratio 5.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.00
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
86834
Primary art unit
1611
Work group
1610
Technology center
1600
Applications
80
Granted applications
4

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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 1.69 135 office actions across 80 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 80 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 42 52.5%
2 OAs 25 31.3%
3 OAs 10 12.5%
4 OAs 2 2.5%
5+ OAs 1 1.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 0.0% 2008 2009: 4.3% 2009 2010: 6.1% 2010 2011: 0.0% 2011

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008100.0%
20092314.3%
20104936.1%
2011700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 80 0.0% 12.5% 76.3% 0.0%
Action 2 38 0.0% 2.6% 86.8% 0.0%
Action 3 13 0.0% 15.4% 69.2% 7.7%
Action 4 3 0.0% 33.3% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 135 office actions
Change N/A Percentage points

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

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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