Examiner Chloë E Benton

Grant ratio: 0.0%. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 0.0%
Average office actions / grant N/A
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
101872
Primary art unit
2899
Work group
2890
Technology center
2800
Applications
15
Granted applications
0
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9976
Supervisor
Zandra Smith
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2429

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 38 43.7% 1.66
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 1.00 15 office actions across 15 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 15 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 15 100.0%
2 OAs 0 0.0%
3 OAs 0 0.0%
4 OAs 0 0.0%
5+ OAs 0 0.0%

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

Grant history

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20261500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 15 0.0% 26.7% 86.7% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 15 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 15 office actions
Change 0.0 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%

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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