Examiner Chantal Adlam

Grant ratio: 16.7% (26th percentile in Art Unit 1622 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.93. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: September 2026
Grant ratio 16.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.93
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
98158
Primary art unit
1622
Work group
1620
Technology center
1600
Applications
90
Granted applications
15
Examiner phone
(571) 270-0923
Supervisor
James Henry Alstrum-Acevedo
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-5548

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 17 41.1% 1.68
Group 256 45.0% 1.76
Tech Center 1,380 37.5% 2.02
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.33 210 office actions across 90 applications
Applications with office actions 84.4% 76 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 14 15.6%
1 OA 23 25.6%
2 OAs 22 24.4%
3 OAs 9 10.0%
4 OAs 9 10.0%
5+ OAs 13 14.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2023: 20.0% 2023 2024: 39.1% 2024 2025: 13.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20235120.0%
202423939.1%
202538513.2%
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 76 0.0% 5.3% 35.5% 2.6%
Action 2 53 0.0% 0.0% 43.4% 1.9%
Action 3 31 0.0% 0.0% 38.7% 3.2%
Action 4 22 0.0% 4.5% 45.5% 0.0%
Action 5 13 0.0% 0.0% 46.2% 7.7%
Action 6 8 0.0% 12.5% 50.0% 12.5%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 16.7%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 207 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 210 office actions
Change 0.0 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-02–2026-10-02. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

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: 2. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
8.0 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 13, 2026 17/895,582 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 14, 2025 17/691,260 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103 · §120

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 Oct. 9, 2026.

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