Examiner Krista Soderholm

Grant ratio: 81.0% (58th percentile in Art Unit 2896 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.88. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: September 2017
Grant ratio 81.0%
Average office actions / grant 1.88
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
81923
Primary art unit
2896
Work group
2890
Technology center
2800
Applications
253
Granted applications
205

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 13 79.6% 1.86
Group 288 53.7% 1.76
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.86 471 office actions across 253 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 253 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 137 54.2%
2 OAs 61 24.1%
3 OAs 25 9.9%
4 OAs 21 8.3%
5+ OAs 9 3.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 53.3% 2008 2009: 68.9% 2009 2010: 74.2% 2010 2011: 93.3% 2011 2012: 80.0% 2012 2013: 89.7% 2013 2014: 100.0% 2014 2015: 81.0% 2015 2016: 82.1% 2016 2017: 100.0% 2017

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200815853.3%
2009453168.9%
2010312374.2%
2011302893.3%
2012252080.0%
2013292689.7%
20141919100.0%
2015211781.0%
2016282382.1%
20171010100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 253 0.0% 12.3% 81.4% 0.8%
Action 2 116 0.0% 4.3% 94.0% 0.9%
Action 3 55 0.0% 3.6% 90.9% 1.8%
Action 4 30 0.0% 6.7% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 5 9 0.0% 11.1% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 6 6 0.0% 16.7% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 471 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

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2014: Alice
0.0%
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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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