Examiner Rhadames J Alonzo Miller

Grant ratio: 57.9% (18th percentile in Art Unit 2847 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.08. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 57.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.08
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87590
Primary art unit
2847
Work group
2840
Technology center
2800
Applications
520
Granted applications
301
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7829
Supervisor
Timothy Thompson
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2342

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 62.9% 1.65
Group 231 68.9% 1.60
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.23 1,162 office actions across 520 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 520 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 225 43.3%
2 OAs 137 26.3%
3 OAs 64 12.3%
4 OAs 52 10.0%
5+ OAs 42 8.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 80.0% 2011 2012: 50.0% 2012 2013: 38.9% 2013 2014: 52.2% 2014 2015: 38.7% 2015 2016: 61.1% 2016 2017: 63.0% 2017 2018: 73.5% 2018 2019: 76.9% 2019 2020: 71.4% 2020 2021: 75.6% 2021 2022: 75.8% 2022 2023: 75.0% 2023 2024: 58.1% 2024 2025: 34.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20115480.0%
2012261350.0%
201318738.9%
2014231252.2%
2015311238.7%
2016362261.1%
2017462963.0%
2018342573.5%
2019393076.9%
2020352571.4%
2021413175.6%
2022332575.8%
2023443375.0%
2024311858.1%
2025441534.1%
20263400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 520 3.5% 18.3% 72.7% 0.2%
Action 2 295 0.0% 13.2% 83.7% 1.7%
Action 3 158 0.0% 12.0% 85.4% 1.9%
Action 4 94 0.0% 3.2% 92.6% 4.3%
Action 5 42 0.0% 7.1% 88.1% 4.8%
Action 6 31 0.0% 9.7% 87.1% 3.2%
Action 7 13 0.0% 7.7% 92.3% 0.0%
Action 8 6 0.0% 16.7% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.5% 1 of 220 office actions
All years 1.5% 18 of 1,162 office actions
Change -1.1 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

11.1%
0.0%
1.6%
2014: Alice
1.5%
1.2%
3.1%
0.9%
1.4%
2019: PEG
3.1%
1.1%
2.5%
1.6%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
2.5%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 15. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
46.7% 7/15 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
46.7% 7/15 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 21, 2026 17/585,290 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Mar. 3, 2026 18/125,833 Reversed §103
Dec. 5, 2025 16/678,479 Reversed N/A
Jul. 31, 2025 16/781,894 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jul. 17, 2025 17/236,655 Reversed §103
Nov. 7, 2023 15/895,363 Affirmed N/A
Jan. 7, 2022 15/410,116 Affirmed §102 · §103
Aug. 2, 2021 16/245,718 Reversed §102 · §103
Aug. 24, 2020 14/831,235 Affirmed §103
Aug. 7, 2017 13/054,593 Reversed §103
Jan. 18, 2017 12/675,856 Affirmed §103
Oct. 31, 2016 13/059,110 Affirmed §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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