Examiner Eliza Osenbaugh-Stewart

Grant ratio: 65.5% (41st percentile in Art Unit 2881 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.86. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 65.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.86
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87462
Primary art unit
2881
Work group
2880
Technology center
2800
Applications
731
Granted applications
479
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5782
Supervisor
Robert Kim
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2293

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 56.3% 1.64
Group 164 64.9% 1.71
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.00 1,464 office actions across 731 applications
Applications with office actions 99.9% 730 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.1%
1 OA 346 47.3%
2 OAs 216 29.5%
3 OAs 74 10.1%
4 OAs 54 7.4%
5+ OAs 40 5.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 0.0% 2010 2011: 50.0% 2011 2012: 56.1% 2012 2013: 70.8% 2013 2014: 60.5% 2014 2015: 62.8% 2015 2016: 67.3% 2016 2017: 82.0% 2017 2018: 83.3% 2018 2019: 88.2% 2019 2020: 81.0% 2020 2021: 78.8% 2021 2022: 82.1% 2022 2023: 60.0% 2023 2024: 81.1% 2024 2025: 28.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2010100.0%
2011241250.0%
2012412356.1%
2013483470.8%
2014382360.5%
2015432762.8%
2016493367.3%
2017504182.0%
2018605083.3%
2019514588.2%
2020423481.0%
2021332678.8%
2022564682.1%
2023553360.0%
2024534381.1%
202532928.1%
20265500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 730 1.2% 4.4% 81.1% 4.5%
Action 2 384 1.0% 2.1% 84.4% 8.1%
Action 3 168 0.6% 1.8% 86.9% 7.7%
Action 4 94 1.1% 4.3% 83.0% 8.5%
Action 5 40 2.5% 2.5% 90.0% 7.5%
Action 6 22 0.0% 0.0% 81.8% 9.1%
Action 7 10 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%
Action 9 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.9% 3 of 318 office actions
All years 1.1% 16 of 1,464 office actions
Change -0.1 pts Percentage points

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

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.9%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
1.0%
0.0%
2.2%
2019: PEG
2.1%
1.4%
0.0%
2.2%
2.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
3.1%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 10. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
40.0% 4/10 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 5/10 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jan. 9, 2024 16/359,831 Affirmed N/A
Mar. 25, 2020 13/388,061 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Mar. 4, 2020 15/301,249 Reversed §103 · §112
Nov. 19, 2018 14/060,120 Affirmed §103 · §112
Mar. 22, 2018 12/445,187 Reversed §103
Dec. 12, 2017 13/260,061 Affirmed §103
Jul. 24, 2017 13/469,613 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jan. 26, 2017 12/948,369 Affirmed §103
Dec. 3, 2015 12/807,852 Reversed N/A
Nov. 30, 2015 12/790,177 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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