Examiner Breffni X Baggot

Grant ratio: 30.7% (86th percentile in Art Unit 3622 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.92. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 30.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.92
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
90439
Primary art unit
3622
Work group
3620
Technology center
3600
Applications
456
Granted applications
140
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7154
Supervisor
Waseem Ashraf
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-3948

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 15.5% 3.43
Group 364 26.5% 2.85
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.79 1,274 office actions across 456 applications
Applications with office actions 97.8% 446 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 10 2.2%
1 OA 141 30.9%
2 OAs 124 27.2%
3 OAs 57 12.5%
4 OAs 51 11.2%
5+ OAs 73 16.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 0.0% 2013 2014: 34.8% 2014 2015: 17.2% 2015 2016: 0.0% 2016 2017: 3.0% 2017 2018: 14.9% 2018 2019: 24.0% 2019 2020: 32.6% 2020 2021: 41.5% 2021 2022: 44.9% 2022 2023: 63.0% 2023 2024: 58.1% 2024 2025: 46.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2013700.0%
201423834.8%
201529517.2%
20162000.0%
20173313.0%
201847714.9%
201925624.0%
2020431432.6%
2021411741.5%
2022492244.9%
2023462963.0%
2024311858.1%
2025281346.4%
20263400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 446 9.0% 4.0% 77.4% 3.6%
Action 2 305 17.7% 3.9% 69.2% 3.6%
Action 3 181 15.5% 3.9% 69.1% 2.2%
Action 4 124 17.7% 3.2% 74.2% 0.0%
Action 5 73 15.1% 4.1% 79.5% 0.0%
Action 6 52 11.5% 5.8% 78.8% 1.9%
Action 7 31 12.9% 0.0% 80.6% 0.0%
Action 8 23 8.7% 0.0% 87.0% 4.3%
Action 9 14 14.3% 0.0% 78.6% 7.1%
Action 10 9 0.0% 0.0% 88.9% 11.1%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 42.2% 94 of 223 office actions
All years 13.8% 176 of 1,274 office actions
Change +28.3 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
9.2%
5.9%
0.0%
0.0%
6.8%
2019: PEG
14.3%
15.5%
11.3%
10.1%
19.3%
2024: AI examples
36.1%
2025: August memo
43.7%
63.8%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 15. Merits outcomes: 12 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
20.0% 3/15 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
20.0% 3/15 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.6 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 17, 2025 18/051,512 Affirmed New ground of rejection §101 · §112
Mar. 6, 2025 17/511,780 Affirmed §101
Feb. 19, 2025 16/253,435 Affirmed §101 · §102
Mar. 26, 2024 17/222,485 Affirmed §101
Jun. 29, 2021 15/231,346 Affirmed §101 · §103
Sep. 11, 2020 13/551,124 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jun. 2, 2020 13/763,333 Reversed §101 · §103
May. 22, 2020 13/190,803 Affirmed §101 · §103
Feb. 28, 2020 13/802,027 Reversed §101 · §103
Jan. 31, 2020 13/865,186 Reversed §101 · §103
Nov. 4, 2019 13/455,951 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Sep. 5, 2019 14/447,529 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112

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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