Examiner Felicia Farrow

Grant ratio: 48.5% (22nd percentile in Art Unit 2437 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.19. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 48.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.19
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
91340
Primary art unit
2437
Work group
2860
Technology center
2800
Applications
307
Granted applications
149
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1856
Supervisor
Alexander Lagor
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5143

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 59.1% 2.12
Group 131 67.2% 1.82
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.42 743 office actions across 307 applications
Applications with office actions 99.3% 305 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.7%
1 OA 84 27.4%
2 OAs 118 38.4%
3 OAs 37 12.1%
4 OAs 40 13.0%
5+ OAs 26 8.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 68.8% 2014 2015: 61.7% 2015 2016: 62.1% 2016 2017: 77.8% 2017 2022: 41.7% 2022 2023: 63.9% 2023 2024: 44.4% 2024 2025: 21.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2014161168.8%
2015472961.7%
2016583662.1%
2017272177.8%
2022241041.7%
2023362363.9%
2024271244.4%
202533721.2%
20263900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 305 0.3% 2.6% 94.8% 2.0%
Action 2 221 1.4% 1.8% 95.0% 1.4%
Action 3 103 3.9% 0.0% 93.2% 1.9%
Action 4 66 6.1% 1.5% 89.4% 1.5%
Action 5 26 3.8% 0.0% 92.3% 3.8%
Action 6 14 0.0% 0.0% 92.9% 7.1%
Action 7 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 4.8% 13 of 273 office actions
All years 1.7% 13 of 743 office actions
Change +3.0 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.0%
2024: AI examples
4.5%
2025: August memo
3.1%
9.1%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 1. Merits outcomes: 0 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
8.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 9, 2025 17/645,064 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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