Examiner Jessie Walls-Murray

Grant ratio: 48.9% (85th percentile in Art Unit 1728 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.56. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 48.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.56
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
95657
Primary art unit
1728
Work group
1720
Technology center
1700
Applications
184
Granted applications
90
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1664
Supervisor
Matthew Martin
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-7871

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 18 29.3% 2.53
Group 264 46.2% 2.20
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.50 460 office actions across 184 applications
Applications with office actions 95.1% 175 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 9 4.9%
1 OA 40 21.7%
2 OAs 57 31.0%
3 OAs 28 15.2%
4 OAs 38 20.7%
5+ OAs 12 6.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 75.0% 2020 2021: 65.4% 2021 2022: 82.4% 2022 2023: 61.3% 2023 2024: 69.2% 2024 2025: 46.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20204375.0%
2021261765.4%
2022171482.4%
2023311961.3%
2024261869.2%
2025411946.3%
20263900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 175 1.1% 6.9% 78.9% 0.6%
Action 2 135 0.0% 14.1% 77.0% 0.0%
Action 3 78 0.0% 10.3% 78.2% 2.6%
Action 4 50 0.0% 4.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 5 12 0.0% 0.0% 83.3% 8.3%
Action 6 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.8% 2 of 238 office actions
All years 0.4% 2 of 460 office actions
Change +0.4 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%
1.2%
2024: AI examples
1.5%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 1. Merits outcomes: 0 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 21, 2025 17/742,459 Reversed §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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