Examiner Lina Cordero

Grant ratio: 61.2% (48th percentile in Art Unit 2857 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.13. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 61.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.13
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
92319
Primary art unit
2857
Work group
2850
Technology center
2800
Applications
451
Granted applications
276
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9969
Supervisor
Andrew Schechter
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2302

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 37 39.4% 1.89
Group 380 61.0% 1.65
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.19 988 office actions across 451 applications
Applications with office actions 96.7% 436 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 15 3.3%
1 OA 203 45.0%
2 OAs 98 21.7%
3 OAs 40 8.9%
4 OAs 49 10.9%
5+ OAs 46 10.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 25.0% 2015 2016: 33.3% 2016 2017: 43.3% 2017 2018: 61.5% 2018 2019: 75.6% 2019 2020: 56.3% 2020 2021: 88.1% 2021 2022: 85.1% 2022 2023: 84.4% 2023 2024: 83.7% 2024 2025: 46.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20158225.0%
2016301033.3%
2017301343.3%
2018392461.5%
2019453475.6%
2020482756.3%
2021423788.1%
2022474085.1%
2023453884.4%
2024433683.7%
2025321546.9%
20264200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 436 27.1% 0.7% 65.1% 0.9%
Action 2 233 26.6% 0.4% 69.1% 2.1%
Action 3 135 22.2% 0.0% 74.1% 3.0%
Action 4 95 24.2% 0.0% 75.8% 0.0%
Action 5 46 39.1% 0.0% 58.7% 2.2%
Action 6 20 45.0% 0.0% 60.0% 5.0%
Action 7 9 33.3% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 8 5 40.0% 0.0% 60.0% 0.0%
Action 9 5 40.0% 0.0% 60.0% 0.0%
Action 10 4 25.0% 0.0% 75.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 50.0% 96 of 192 office actions
All years 27.1% 268 of 988 office actions
Change +22.9 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%
14.9%
4.8%
19.5%
35.8%
2019: PEG
18.0%
14.7%
19.8%
36.6%
49.2%
2024: AI examples
57.6%
2025: August memo
43.1%
51.9%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 29, 2024 15/303,480 Affirmed §103 · §112
Oct. 7, 2022 15/755,373 Affirmed §103 · §112
Apr. 29, 2022 15/532,482 Affirmed §101
Nov. 27, 2020 14/781,423 Reversed §101
Sep. 27, 2019 13/969,715 Affirmed §101
Aug. 29, 2018 14/655,025 Affirmed §101
Jan. 31, 2018 13/458,850 Reversed §101

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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