Examiner Rose Clark

Grant ratio: 82.4% (74th percentile in Art Unit 2412 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.08. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: April 2019
Grant ratio 82.4%
Average office actions / grant 2.08
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
90441
Primary art unit
2412
Work group
2410
Technology center
2400
Applications
222
Granted applications
183

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 19 76.4% 1.71
Group 166 51.7% 1.94
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.06 490 office actions across 238 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 238 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 95 39.9%
2 OAs 78 32.8%
3 OAs 38 16.0%
4 OAs 16 6.7%
5+ OAs 11 4.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 66.7% 2013 2014: 86.4% 2014 2015: 66.7% 2015 2016: 71.4% 2016 2017: 96.1% 2017 2018: 85.4% 2018 2019: 100.0% 2019

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20136466.7%
2014221986.4%
2015392666.7%
2016423071.4%
2017514996.1%
2018484185.4%
20191414100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 238 2.1% 16.8% 71.8% 5.0%
Action 2 143 0.0% 13.3% 81.1% 5.6%
Action 3 65 1.5% 18.5% 73.8% 4.6%
Action 4 27 3.7% 14.8% 77.8% 3.7%
Action 5 11 0.0% 9.1% 81.8% 9.1%
Action 6 5 0.0% 0.0% 80.0% 20.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 1.4% 7 of 490 office actions
Change N/A 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
1.1%
1.1%
2.1%
3.4%
2019: PEG
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
11.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 15, 2020 14/714,372 Affirmed §103
Feb. 14, 2019 13/877,834 Reversed N/A
Sep. 27, 2017 14/114,762 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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