Examiner Boone A Evans

Grant ratio: 42.8% (63rd percentile in Art Unit 1737 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.73. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 42.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.73
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
96364
Primary art unit
1737
Work group
1730
Technology center
1700
Applications
264
Granted applications
113
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1420
Supervisor
Mark Huff
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1385

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 14 40.8% 2.08
Group 191 48.8% 1.97
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.68 444 office actions across 264 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 264 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 147 55.7%
2 OAs 75 28.4%
3 OAs 26 9.8%
4 OAs 14 5.3%
5+ OAs 2 0.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2021: 66.7% 2021 2022: 44.4% 2022 2023: 45.1% 2023 2024: 62.2% 2024 2025: 50.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20213266.7%
2022452044.4%
2023512345.1%
2024452862.2%
2025794050.6%
20264100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 264 0.0% 6.8% 89.8% 1.1%
Action 2 117 0.0% 2.6% 95.7% 0.9%
Action 3 42 0.0% 0.0% 95.2% 4.8%
Action 4 16 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 248 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 444 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

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

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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