Examiner Travis Hunnings

Grant ratio: 79.5% (97th percentile in Art Unit 2689 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.46. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 79.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.46
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
80494
Primary art unit
2689
Work group
2680
Technology center
2600
Applications
1,155
Granted applications
918
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3118
Supervisor
Davetta Goins
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2957

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 15 64.7% 1.87
Group 114 64.6% 1.80
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.45 1,674 office actions across 1,155 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 1,152 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.3%
1 OA 808 70.0%
2 OAs 246 21.3%
3 OAs 52 4.5%
4 OAs 29 2.5%
5+ OAs 17 1.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 61.7% 2008 2009: 74.6% 2009 2010: 75.9% 2010 2011: 81.7% 2011 2012: 81.5% 2012 2013: 82.5% 2013 2014: 79.2% 2014 2015: 77.5% 2015 2016: 86.8% 2016 2017: 88.5% 2017 2018: 91.5% 2018 2019: 95.1% 2019 2020: 96.6% 2020 2021: 89.6% 2021 2022: 90.3% 2022 2023: 85.5% 2023 2024: 90.2% 2024 2025: 53.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008472961.7%
2009715374.6%
20101088275.9%
2011604981.7%
2012816681.5%
2013635282.5%
2014725779.2%
2015806277.5%
2016766686.8%
2017786988.5%
2018595491.5%
2019413995.1%
2020292896.6%
2021484389.6%
2022625690.3%
2023554785.5%
2024413790.2%
2025542953.7%
20263000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,152 2.8% 7.3% 65.7% 4.8%
Action 2 344 1.2% 6.1% 74.4% 3.8%
Action 3 98 3.1% 3.1% 81.6% 2.0%
Action 4 46 2.2% 2.2% 82.6% 2.2%
Action 5 17 0.0% 0.0% 94.1% 0.0%
Action 6 9 0.0% 0.0% 88.9% 11.1%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.9% 5 of 170 office actions
All years 2.4% 40 of 1,674 office actions
Change +0.6 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%
2.2%
4.1%
0.0%
1.6%
1.9%
2014: Alice
2.4%
2.5%
1.7%
4.9%
4.3%
2019: PEG
4.4%
0.0%
1.9%
1.3%
1.6%
2024: AI examples
4.2%
2025: August memo
2.9%
3.1%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 16. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
43.8% 7/16 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 8/16 decisions
Median appeal duration
26.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 2, 2021 15/729,417 Affirmed in part §103
Aug. 3, 2018 12/401,350 Reversed N/A
Oct. 17, 2017 12/395,669 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Apr. 18, 2017 11/989,677 Affirmed §103
Feb. 8, 2017 12/826,034 Reversed §103
Oct. 31, 2016 12/665,899 Reversed §112
Apr. 13, 2016 12/356,339 Affirmed §103
Nov. 25, 2015 12/856,780 Reversed N/A
Oct. 28, 2015 12/722,363 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 26, 2015 12/827,663 Reversed N/A
Oct. 16, 2015 12/677,946 Affirmed N/A
Jul. 16, 2015 12/276,288 Affirmed N/A

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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