Examiner Marnie Matt

Grant ratio: 79.5% (86th percentile in Art Unit 2485 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.45. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 79.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.45
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91683
Primary art unit
2485
Work group
2480
Technology center
2400
Applications
483
Granted applications
384
Examiner phone
(303) 297-4255
Supervisor
Jay Patel
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2988

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 59.5% 1.95
Group 173 59.9% 2.01
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.47 711 office actions across 483 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 482 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.2%
1 OA 343 71.0%
2 OAs 80 16.6%
3 OAs 34 7.0%
4 OAs 19 3.9%
5+ OAs 6 1.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 40.0% 2014 2015: 45.0% 2015 2016: 63.4% 2016 2017: 86.0% 2017 2018: 88.7% 2018 2019: 97.7% 2019 2020: 94.4% 2020 2021: 95.2% 2021 2022: 98.0% 2022 2023: 96.9% 2023 2024: 90.9% 2024 2025: 61.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20145240.0%
201520945.0%
2016412663.4%
2017504386.0%
2018534788.7%
2019444397.7%
2020363494.4%
2021424095.2%
2022504998.0%
2023323196.9%
2024333090.9%
2025493061.2%
20262800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 482 4.6% 8.3% 68.9% 7.5%
Action 2 139 2.2% 10.8% 77.7% 5.8%
Action 3 59 1.7% 5.1% 89.8% 3.4%
Action 4 25 0.0% 4.0% 96.0% 0.0%
Action 5 6 0.0% 0.0% 83.3% 16.7%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.5% 5 of 141 office actions
All years 3.7% 26 of 711 office actions
Change -0.1 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.5%
11.7%
2019: PEG
3.8%
8.5%
6.5%
4.8%
5.7%
2024: AI examples
4.9%
2025: August memo
1.7%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
100.0% 2/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 2/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
11.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 31, 2018 13/800,697 Reversed §103
May. 30, 2018 13/504,812 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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