Examiner Gillian A Hutter

Grant ratio: 33.5% (28th percentile in Art Unit 1625 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.88. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 33.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.88
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
96722
Primary art unit
1625
Work group
1620
Technology center
1600
Applications
176
Granted applications
59
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6323
Supervisor
Andrew Kosar
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-0913

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 55.7% 1.54
Group 252 46.0% 1.76
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.08 371 office actions across 178 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 178 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 77 43.3%
2 OAs 53 29.8%
3 OAs 20 11.2%
4 OAs 17 9.6%
5+ OAs 11 6.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2022: 62.1% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 58.1% 2024 2025: 24.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2022291862.1%
2023321650.0%
2024311858.1%
202529724.1%
20265500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 178 0.6% 13.5% 49.4% 6.7%
Action 2 101 1.0% 10.9% 57.4% 6.9%
Action 3 48 0.0% 18.8% 54.2% 10.4%
Action 4 28 0.0% 7.1% 64.3% 10.7%
Action 5 11 0.0% 18.2% 63.6% 9.1%
Action 6 4 0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.4% 1 of 264 office actions
All years 0.5% 2 of 371 office actions
Change -0.2 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%
1.7%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.1%
2025: August memo
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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