Examiner Ehrin Pratt

Grant ratio: 12.5% (35th percentile in Art Unit 3629 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 4.17. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 12.5%
Average office actions / grant 4.17
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
88025
Primary art unit
3629
Work group
3620
Technology center
3600
Applications
383
Granted applications
48
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3184
Supervisor
Lynda Jasmin
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6782

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 21.0% 2.88
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 3.55 1,358 office actions across 383 applications
Applications with office actions 98.7% 378 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 5 1.3%
1 OA 84 21.9%
2 OAs 77 20.1%
3 OAs 44 11.5%
4 OAs 70 18.3%
5+ OAs 103 26.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 16.7% 2011 2012: 25.0% 2012 2013: 23.5% 2013 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 10.7% 2015 2016: 0.0% 2016 2017: 13.0% 2017 2018: 6.7% 2018 2019: 11.8% 2019 2020: 16.2% 2020 2021: 40.7% 2021 2022: 26.9% 2022 2023: 16.7% 2023 2024: 3.4% 2024 2025: 0.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20116116.7%
201216425.0%
201317423.5%
20142100.0%
201528310.7%
20162600.0%
201723313.0%
20183026.7%
201917211.8%
202037616.2%
2021271140.7%
202226726.9%
202324416.7%
20242913.4%
20251800.0%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 378 2.6% 16.4% 78.6% 0.3%
Action 2 294 8.2% 29.6% 61.6% 0.3%
Action 3 217 14.7% 16.1% 68.2% 0.5%
Action 4 173 12.1% 10.4% 74.6% 1.2%
Action 5 103 18.4% 6.8% 73.8% 1.0%
Action 6 68 19.1% 7.4% 73.5% 0.0%
Action 7 41 34.1% 2.4% 61.0% 0.0%
Action 8 31 51.6% 3.2% 45.2% 0.0%
Action 9 17 52.9% 0.0% 47.1% 0.0%
Action 10 11 63.6% 0.0% 36.4% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 17.9% 46 of 257 office actions
All years 13.1% 178 of 1,358 office actions
Change +4.8 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%
4.7%
8.9%
2014: Alice
2.8%
5.9%
11.5%
15.2%
17.2%
2019: PEG
25.8%
20.8%
16.0%
12.0%
8.3%
2024: AI examples
12.2%
2025: August memo
19.1%
35.2%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 25. Merits outcomes: 16 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
28.0% 7/25 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
36.0% 9/25 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.9 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 8, 2026 16/984,327 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Jan. 29, 2026 17/469,468 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Oct. 21, 2025 17/530,264 Reversed §101 · §103
Jun. 24, 2025 16/985,011 Reversed §103
Jan. 29, 2025 16/669,336 Affirmed §101
Jul. 1, 2024 15/215,251 Affirmed §101 · §112
Feb. 5, 2024 16/706,106 Reversed §103
Nov. 20, 2023 15/889,692 Affirmed in part §101 · §103
Oct. 27, 2023 16/556,221 Affirmed §101
Jun. 13, 2023 15/588,197 Affirmed §103
Feb. 9, 2023 16/208,198 Reversed §101 · §102
Jan. 26, 2023 14/873,507 Affirmed New ground of rejection §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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