Examiner Keith R Williams

Grant ratio: 0.0% (4th percentile in Art Unit 1663 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: September 2026
Grant ratio 0.0%
Average office actions / grant N/A
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
100636
Primary art unit
1663
Work group
1660
Technology center
1600
Applications
54
Granted applications
0
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3911
Supervisor
Amjad Abraham
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-7058

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 52.2% 1.49
Group 57 59.1% 1.46
Tech Center 1,380 37.5% 2.02
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.76 95 office actions across 54 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 54 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 27 50.0%
2 OAs 15 27.8%
3 OAs 11 20.4%
4 OAs 0 0.0%
5+ OAs 1 1.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2025: 0.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2025900.0%
20264500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 54 13.0% 13.0% 59.3% 9.3%
Action 2 27 14.8% 18.5% 44.4% 14.8%
Action 3 12 8.3% 0.0% 83.3% 8.3%
Action 4 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 12.6% 12 of 95 office actions
All years 12.6% 12 of 95 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

2025: August memo
10.0%
14.5%

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 Oct. 9, 2026.

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