Examiner Catherine Tuttle

Grant ratio: 93.5% (16th percentile in Art Unit 2912 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.37. Most common rejection type: §112.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: October 2022
Grant ratio 93.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.37
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
67861
Primary art unit
2912
Work group
2900-WG
Technology center
2900
Applications
666
Granted applications
623

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 34 96.3% 1.20
Group 461 94.9% 1.19
Tech Center 486 94.6% 1.20
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.39 935 office actions across 671 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 671 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 463 69.0%
2 OAs 171 25.5%
3 OAs 26 3.9%
4 OAs 5 0.7%
5+ OAs 6 0.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 96.2% 2008 2009: 95.5% 2009 2010: 92.7% 2010 2011: 91.9% 2011 2012: 100.0% 2012 2013: 95.3% 2013 2014: 94.7% 2014 2015: 92.7% 2015 2016: 86.5% 2016 2017: 85.7% 2017 2018: 98.3% 2018 2019: 92.0% 2019 2020: 91.9% 2020 2021: 95.6% 2021 2022: 95.5% 2022

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008535196.2%
2009676495.5%
2010555192.7%
2011373491.9%
20123030100.0%
2013434195.3%
2014383694.7%
2015555192.7%
2016524586.5%
2017494285.7%
2018585798.3%
2019252392.0%
2020373491.9%
2021454395.6%
2022222195.5%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 671 0.0% 6.4% 5.4% 72.6%
Action 2 208 0.0% 7.7% 5.3% 79.3%
Action 3 37 0.0% 5.4% 2.7% 89.2%
Action 4 11 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 90.9%
Action 5 6 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Action 6 2 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 50.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 935 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
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2019: PEG
0.0%
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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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