Examiner Gracelyn M Hill

Grant ratio: 0.0% (14th percentile in Art Unit 1685 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 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
101692
Primary art unit
1685
Work group
1680
Technology center
1600
Applications
24
Granted applications
0
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9871
Supervisor
Olivia M. Wise
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2249

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 16 6.8% 2.77
Group 68 6.4% 2.37
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.13 27 office actions across 24 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 24 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 21 87.5%
2 OAs 3 12.5%
3 OAs 0 0.0%
4 OAs 0 0.0%
5+ OAs 0 0.0%

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

Grant history

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 24 12.5% 8.3% 83.3% 8.3%
Action 2 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 11.1% 3 of 27 office actions
All years 11.1% 3 of 27 office actions
Change 0.0 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

11.1%

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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