Examiner Dave Robertson

Grant ratio: 8.3%. Average office actions per grant: 2.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Potentially inactive Last office action in data: May 2026
Grant ratio 8.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.00
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
78414
Primary art unit
2119
Work group
2110
Technology center
2100
Applications
12
Granted applications
1

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 18 49.6% 1.83
Group 214 64.2% 1.69
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.67 20 office actions across 12 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 12 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 6 50.0%
2 OAs 5 41.7%
3 OAs 0 0.0%
4 OAs 1 8.3%
5+ OAs 0 0.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 0.0% 2010 2013: 0.0% 2013 2016: 0.0% 2016 2020: 0.0% 2020 2022: 100.0% 2022 2023: 0.0% 2023 2025: 0.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2010100.0%
2013200.0%
2016200.0%
2020200.0%
202211100.0%
2023100.0%
2025100.0%
2026200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 12 8.3% 41.7% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 2 6 0.0% 33.3% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 3 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 4 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 6 office actions
All years 5.0% 1 of 20 office actions
Change -5.0 pts Percentage points

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

By year

100.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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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