Examiner Christopher Kingsbury Glover

Grant ratio: 46.0% (19th percentile in Art Unit 2485 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.24. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 46.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.24
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
93952
Primary art unit
2485
Work group
2480
Technology center
2400
Applications
200
Granted applications
92
Examiner phone
(303) 297-4401
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 2.52 504 office actions across 200 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 200 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 68 34.0%
2 OAs 59 29.5%
3 OAs 20 10.0%
4 OAs 28 14.0%
5+ OAs 25 12.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2018: 0.0% 2018 2019: 37.9% 2019 2020: 60.0% 2020 2021: 57.1% 2021 2022: 62.2% 2022 2023: 46.2% 2023 2024: 72.7% 2024 2025: 25.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2018500.0%
2019291137.9%
2020251560.0%
2021281657.1%
2022372362.2%
202313646.2%
2024221672.7%
202520525.0%
20262100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 200 0.5% 3.5% 92.0% 2.5%
Action 2 132 0.0% 0.8% 94.7% 3.8%
Action 3 73 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 53 0.0% 0.0% 96.2% 3.8%
Action 5 25 0.0% 0.0% 96.0% 4.0%
Action 6 14 7.1% 0.0% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.7% 1 of 147 office actions
All years 0.4% 2 of 504 office actions
Change +0.3 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%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
2.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
42.9% 3/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
42.9% 3/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
7.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 10, 2024 16/338,514 Reversed §103
Sep. 25, 2023 16/239,501 Affirmed §103
Sep. 25, 2023 17/003,773 Affirmed §103
Jul. 20, 2023 15/813,608 Reversed §103
Nov. 12, 2021 15/658,271 Affirmed §103
Nov. 5, 2021 15/331,864 Affirmed §103
Sep. 20, 2021 15/538,853 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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