Examiner Jennifer Lamberski

Grant ratio: 51.7% (78th percentile in Art Unit 1618 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.99. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: August 2025
Grant ratio 51.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.99
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
87384
Primary art unit
1618
Work group
1610
Technology center
1600
Applications
580
Granted applications
300

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 22 35.3% 2.44
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 2.71 1,571 office actions across 580 applications
Applications with office actions 99.5% 577 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.5%
1 OA 150 25.9%
2 OAs 174 30.0%
3 OAs 98 16.9%
4 OAs 77 13.3%
5+ OAs 78 13.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 0.0% 2010 2011: 8.7% 2011 2012: 42.5% 2012 2013: 40.0% 2013 2014: 46.3% 2014 2015: 34.0% 2015 2016: 48.6% 2016 2017: 41.5% 2017 2018: 42.5% 2018 2019: 41.7% 2019 2020: 67.9% 2020 2021: 76.1% 2021 2022: 67.9% 2022 2023: 73.9% 2023 2024: 71.9% 2024 2025: 88.9% 2025

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2010200.0%
20112328.7%
2012401742.5%
2013401640.0%
2014411946.3%
2015531834.0%
2016371848.6%
2017411741.5%
2018401742.5%
2019482041.7%
2020563867.9%
2021675176.1%
2022281967.9%
2023231773.9%
2024322371.9%
20259888.9%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 577 2.6% 13.9% 46.3% 6.2%
Action 2 427 1.2% 8.4% 56.7% 10.1%
Action 3 253 0.4% 7.9% 53.0% 12.3%
Action 4 155 1.3% 4.5% 54.2% 12.9%
Action 5 78 1.3% 6.4% 55.1% 14.1%
Action 6 40 2.5% 10.0% 47.5% 20.0%
Action 7 16 0.0% 18.8% 56.3% 12.5%
Action 8 10 0.0% 10.0% 60.0% 10.0%
Action 9 7 0.0% 14.3% 57.1% 14.3%
Action 10 6 0.0% 16.7% 66.7% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.9% 2 of 106 office actions
All years 1.6% 25 of 1,571 office actions
Change +0.3 pts Percentage points

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

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
0.9%
0.9%
2014: Alice
3.1%
0.0%
0.0%
3.3%
1.6%
2019: PEG
1.3%
1.3%
1.8%
4.7%
1.7%
2024: AI examples
3.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 5. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 14, 2021 14/400,846 Reversed §102 · §103
Mar. 31, 2020 14/054,651 Reversed §101 · §102 · §103
Mar. 26, 2019 14/095,066 Affirmed §103
Oct. 19, 2018 12/296,732 Affirmed §103
Jun. 28, 2016 12/590,269 Affirmed §103

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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