Examiner Anna Skibinsky

Grant ratio: 36.1% (48th percentile in Art Unit 1631 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.73. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 36.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.73
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
81580
Primary art unit
1631
Work group
1630
Technology center
1600
Applications
721
Granted applications
260
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4373
Supervisor
Marjorie Moran
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-0720

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 31 35.4% 2.35
Group 245 37.4% 2.18
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.59 1,864 office actions across 721 applications
Applications with office actions 98.6% 711 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 10 1.4%
1 OA 234 32.5%
2 OAs 207 28.7%
3 OAs 93 12.9%
4 OAs 74 10.3%
5+ OAs 103 14.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 19.0% 2008 2009: 28.2% 2009 2010: 32.1% 2010 2011: 29.4% 2011 2012: 37.0% 2012 2013: 44.7% 2013 2014: 14.3% 2014 2015: 2.7% 2015 2016: 26.7% 2016 2017: 34.8% 2017 2018: 31.8% 2018 2019: 45.8% 2019 2020: 40.0% 2020 2021: 50.0% 2021 2022: 64.4% 2022 2023: 62.8% 2023 2024: 56.8% 2024 2025: 25.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200821419.0%
2009391128.2%
201028932.1%
2011341029.4%
2012271037.0%
2013381744.7%
201421314.3%
20153712.7%
2016451226.7%
2017461634.8%
2018441431.8%
2019482245.8%
2020401640.0%
2021502550.0%
2022452964.4%
2023432762.8%
2024442556.8%
202536925.0%
20263500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 711 8.6% 7.5% 60.6% 22.4%
Action 2 477 6.3% 5.7% 65.4% 22.0%
Action 3 270 13.3% 1.9% 65.6% 19.6%
Action 4 177 19.8% 2.3% 55.4% 22.0%
Action 5 103 27.2% 1.0% 49.5% 21.4%
Action 6 65 32.3% 0.0% 44.6% 20.0%
Action 7 29 34.5% 3.4% 37.9% 24.1%
Action 8 18 27.8% 0.0% 44.4% 27.8%
Action 9 9 22.2% 0.0% 55.6% 22.2%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.3% 7 of 215 office actions
All years 12.2% 228 of 1,864 office actions
Change -9.0 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%
1.0%
0.0%
1.0%
0.0%
0.8%
2014: Alice
7.7%
20.2%
30.6%
32.1%
39.5%
2019: PEG
21.1%
17.3%
9.6%
4.8%
2.4%
2024: AI examples
4.8%
2025: August memo
0.0%
4.7%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 30. Merits outcomes: 19 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 10 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 10/30 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
36.7% 11/30 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 10, 2026 17/672,838 Affirmed §101
Nov. 20, 2025 16/202,331 Affirmed §112
Sep. 9, 2024 15/473,302 Affirmed §101 · §112 · §120
Jul. 9, 2024 15/773,238 Affirmed §101
Jan. 23, 2024 15/431,715 Reversed §101
May. 23, 2023 15/048,935 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Jan. 30, 2023 15/675,441 Affirmed §101
Jul. 19, 2022 14/649,796 Reversed §101
Mar. 1, 2022 12/695,235 Affirmed §101
Feb. 9, 2022 13/412,887 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Jan. 20, 2022 16/859,826 Affirmed §101 · §112
Aug. 25, 2021 14/443,118 Affirmed §101

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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