Examiner Schquita Goodwin

Grant ratio: 50.6% (29th percentile in Art Unit 2459 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.85. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 50.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.85
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
90020
Primary art unit
2459
Work group
2450
Technology center
2400
Applications
362
Granted applications
183
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5477
Supervisor
Glenton Burgess
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3949

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 15 43.7% 2.80
Group 210 57.4% 2.41
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.90 1,051 office actions across 362 applications
Applications with office actions 99.2% 359 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.8%
1 OA 132 36.5%
2 OAs 75 20.7%
3 OAs 40 11.0%
4 OAs 41 11.3%
5+ OAs 71 19.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 0.0% 2013 2014: 33.3% 2014 2015: 25.0% 2015 2016: 20.0% 2016 2017: 26.7% 2017 2018: 7.7% 2018 2019: 52.9% 2019 2020: 80.0% 2020 2021: 86.1% 2021 2022: 91.7% 2022 2023: 75.0% 2023 2024: 81.8% 2024 2025: 36.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2013400.0%
201415533.3%
201512325.0%
201620420.0%
201715426.7%
20181317.7%
2019341852.9%
2020302480.0%
2021363186.1%
2022484491.7%
2023241875.0%
202411981.8%
2025602236.7%
20264000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 359 0.6% 3.3% 88.6% 1.1%
Action 2 227 1.3% 3.1% 95.6% 0.4%
Action 3 152 0.7% 0.7% 97.4% 0.7%
Action 4 112 0.9% 0.9% 98.2% 0.0%
Action 5 71 1.4% 0.0% 94.4% 4.2%
Action 6 52 1.9% 0.0% 98.1% 0.0%
Action 7 33 0.0% 0.0% 97.0% 3.0%
Action 8 25 0.0% 0.0% 92.0% 4.0%
Action 9 12 0.0% 0.0% 91.7% 8.3%
Action 10 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.4% 6 of 179 office actions
All years 0.9% 9 of 1,051 office actions
Change +2.5 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
2.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
3.0%
2025: August memo
3.2%
4.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 9, 2023 14/492,024 Affirmed §103
Jan. 6, 2023 15/961,686 Affirmed §103
Oct. 26, 2022 16/030,387 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Jan. 31, 2022 14/846,293 Reversed §103 · §112
Dec. 30, 2021 15/070,130 Affirmed §103
Sep. 30, 2021 14/846,720 Reversed §103
Oct. 28, 2020 13/455,047 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112

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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