Examiner Terrika Peterson

Grant ratio: 17.1% (7th percentile in Art Unit 2426 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.83. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: July 2026
Grant ratio 17.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.83
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
74948
Primary art unit
2426
Work group
2420
Technology center
2400
Applications
35
Granted applications
6
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7055
Supervisor
Colleen Fauz
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1667

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 50.0% 2.88
Group 130 52.7% 2.61
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.11 74 office actions across 35 applications
Applications with office actions 82.9% 29 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 6 17.1%
1 OA 12 34.3%
2 OAs 8 22.9%
3 OAs 0 0.0%
4 OAs 4 11.4%
5+ OAs 5 14.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 0.0% 2009 2010: 0.0% 2010 2011: 0.0% 2011 2014: 0.0% 2014 2016: 0.0% 2016 2017: 0.0% 2017 2021: 66.7% 2021 2022: 40.0% 2022 2025: 50.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2009100.0%
2010700.0%
2011400.0%
2014100.0%
2016100.0%
2017100.0%
20213266.7%
20225240.0%
20254250.0%
2026800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 29 3.4% 20.7% 69.0% 3.4%
Action 2 17 0.0% 17.6% 64.7% 0.0%
Action 3 9 0.0% 22.2% 77.8% 0.0%
Action 4 11 0.0% 9.1% 81.8% 9.1%
Action 5 5 0.0% 20.0% 60.0% 0.0%
Action 6 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 8.3% 1 of 12 office actions
All years 1.4% 1 of 74 office actions
Change +7.0 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%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2025: August memo
25.0%
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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