Examiner Lorena Bruner

Grant ratio: 75.7% (38th percentile in Art Unit 2838 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.53. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: May 2021
Grant ratio 75.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.53
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91691
Primary art unit
2838
Work group
2830
Technology center
2800
Applications
144
Granted applications
109

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 60 64.3% 1.59
Group 354 67.0% 1.58
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.45 438 office actions across 179 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 179 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 63 35.2%
2 OAs 58 32.4%
3 OAs 25 14.0%
4 OAs 12 6.7%
5+ OAs 21 11.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 50.0% 2014 2015: 80.8% 2015 2016: 92.6% 2016 2017: 75.0% 2017 2018: 80.6% 2018 2019: 64.3% 2019 2020: 37.5% 2020 2021: 85.7% 2021

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20142150.0%
2015262180.8%
2016272592.6%
2017161275.0%
2018362980.6%
201914964.3%
202016637.5%
20217685.7%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 179 0.6% 20.7% 67.0% 4.5%
Action 2 116 0.0% 20.7% 69.0% 4.3%
Action 3 58 0.0% 19.0% 79.3% 0.0%
Action 4 33 0.0% 18.2% 81.8% 0.0%
Action 5 21 0.0% 19.0% 81.0% 0.0%
Action 6 13 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 8 0.0% 12.5% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.2% 1 of 438 office actions
Change N/A 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%
1.2%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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