Examiner Joselynn Y Sliteris

Grant ratio: 68.4% (20th percentile in Art Unit 3616 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.77. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 68.4%
Average office actions / grant 1.77
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
77418
Primary art unit
3616
Work group
3610
Technology center
3600
Applications
383
Granted applications
262
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6675
Supervisor
Jason D. Shanske
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5985

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 70.1% 1.46
Group 162 58.7% 1.45
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.81 693 office actions across 383 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 383 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 194 50.7%
2 OAs 118 30.8%
3 OAs 40 10.4%
4 OAs 19 5.0%
5+ OAs 12 3.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 64.0% 2008 2009: 57.1% 2009 2010: 76.9% 2010 2011: 55.6% 2011 2012: 93.8% 2012 2013: 68.4% 2013 2014: 85.0% 2014 2015: 82.4% 2015 2016: 88.5% 2016 2017: 81.3% 2017 2018: 78.9% 2018 2019: 71.4% 2019 2020: 94.1% 2020 2021: 76.9% 2021 2022: 90.0% 2022 2023: 81.8% 2023 2024: 88.2% 2024 2025: 27.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008251664.0%
2009281657.1%
2010131076.9%
2011181055.6%
2012161593.8%
2013191368.4%
2014201785.0%
2015171482.4%
2016262388.5%
2017161381.3%
2018191578.9%
2019211571.4%
2020171694.1%
2021131076.9%
2022201890.0%
2023221881.8%
2024171588.2%
202529827.6%
20262700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 383 1.0% 23.5% 52.7% 21.1%
Action 2 189 0.5% 19.0% 64.0% 14.3%
Action 3 71 0.0% 18.3% 70.4% 12.7%
Action 4 31 0.0% 16.1% 71.0% 12.9%
Action 5 12 0.0% 16.7% 66.7% 16.7%
Action 6 7 0.0% 14.3% 71.4% 14.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 147 office actions
All years 0.7% 5 of 693 office actions
Change -0.7 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
2.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
3.6%
0.0%
0.0%
8.3%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
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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