Examiner Rayna B Rodriguez

Grant ratio: 27.1% (27th percentile in Art Unit 1628 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.87. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 27.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.87
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89263
Primary art unit
1628
Work group
1620
Technology center
1600
Applications
653
Granted applications
177
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7088
Supervisor
Amy L Clark
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1310

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 39.2% 1.96
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 3.03 1,978 office actions across 653 applications
Applications with office actions 98.3% 642 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 11 1.7%
1 OA 183 28.0%
2 OAs 161 24.7%
3 OAs 88 13.5%
4 OAs 75 11.5%
5+ OAs 135 20.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 100.0% 2010 2012: 33.3% 2012 2013: 22.2% 2013 2014: 33.3% 2014 2015: 28.6% 2015 2016: 29.2% 2016 2017: 44.4% 2017 2018: 33.3% 2018 2019: 37.0% 2019 2020: 19.1% 2020 2021: 23.1% 2021 2022: 27.9% 2022 2023: 42.6% 2023 2024: 36.2% 2024 2025: 11.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201022100.0%
20126233.3%
201327622.2%
2014421433.3%
2015491428.6%
2016481429.2%
2017452044.4%
2018481633.3%
2019461737.0%
202047919.1%
202139923.1%
2022431227.9%
2023472042.6%
2024471736.2%
202542511.9%
20267500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 642 0.3% 10.0% 57.3% 5.1%
Action 2 459 0.2% 5.9% 67.3% 6.5%
Action 3 298 0.0% 8.1% 67.1% 5.4%
Action 4 210 0.0% 5.2% 68.6% 4.3%
Action 5 135 0.0% 1.5% 76.3% 1.5%
Action 6 86 0.0% 3.5% 79.1% 2.3%
Action 7 62 0.0% 3.2% 77.4% 4.8%
Action 8 40 0.0% 0.0% 77.5% 5.0%
Action 9 18 0.0% 0.0% 72.2% 11.1%
Action 10 7 0.0% 0.0% 71.4% 14.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 342 office actions
All years 0.2% 3 of 1,978 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.4%
1.6%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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: 32. Merits outcomes: 19 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 11 reversed.

Full reversal rate
34.4% 11/32 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
40.6% 13/32 decisions
Median appeal duration
11.6 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 6, 2026 17/648,057 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103
Dec. 17, 2025 16/765,024 Reversed §103
Sep. 11, 2025 17/982,182 Reversed §112
Aug. 22, 2025 15/939,831 Reversed §103 · §112
Jul. 2, 2025 17/845,278 Affirmed §103
Jun. 7, 2023 13/645,871 Affirmed §103
Mar. 17, 2023 16/026,421 Reversed §103
Feb. 10, 2023 16/248,842 Reversed §103
Nov. 18, 2022 15/879,536 Affirmed §103
Nov. 8, 2022 15/852,181 Affirmed §103 · §120
Mar. 31, 2022 15/571,575 Affirmed §103
Jan. 25, 2022 15/765,756 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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