Examiner Gloryvid Figueroa-Gibson

Grant ratio: 59.7% (25th percentile in Art Unit 2623 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.30. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 59.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.30
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89008
Primary art unit
2623
Work group
2620
Technology center
2600
Applications
382
Granted applications
228
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5506

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 14 64.4% 1.99
Group 279 55.5% 2.00
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.39 915 office actions across 383 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 383 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 147 38.4%
2 OAs 111 29.0%
3 OAs 41 10.7%
4 OAs 37 9.7%
5+ OAs 47 12.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 100.0% 2012 2013: 29.6% 2013 2014: 64.3% 2014 2015: 40.7% 2015 2016: 65.0% 2016 2017: 58.3% 2017 2018: 48.3% 2018 2019: 71.4% 2019 2020: 73.9% 2020 2021: 69.6% 2021 2022: 86.2% 2022 2023: 92.0% 2023 2024: 85.0% 2024 2025: 50.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201233100.0%
201327829.6%
2014422764.3%
2015271140.7%
2016201365.0%
2017362158.3%
2018291448.3%
2019282071.4%
2020231773.9%
2021231669.6%
2022292586.2%
2023252392.0%
2024201785.0%
2025261350.0%
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 383 0.3% 10.7% 75.7% 4.4%
Action 2 236 0.8% 6.8% 83.1% 5.1%
Action 3 125 0.0% 7.2% 85.6% 2.4%
Action 4 84 0.0% 2.4% 90.5% 2.4%
Action 5 47 0.0% 0.0% 91.5% 4.3%
Action 6 21 0.0% 0.0% 90.5% 0.0%
Action 7 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 147 office actions
All years 0.3% 3 of 915 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%
1.1%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
2019: PEG
0.0%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
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
14.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 26, 2022 15/949,968 Reversed §103
May. 26, 2017 13/700,883 Affirmed §103
Dec. 11, 2015 13/371,421 Reversed §101 · §102

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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