Examiner Corey Russ

Grant ratio: 18.1% (57th percentile in Art Unit 3629 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.05. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 18.1%
Average office actions / grant 3.05
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
95038
Primary art unit
3629
Work group
3620
Technology center
3600
Applications
215
Granted applications
39
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5902

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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 2.55 548 office actions across 215 applications
Applications with office actions 99.5% 214 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.5%
1 OA 66 30.7%
2 OAs 64 29.8%
3 OAs 32 14.9%
4 OAs 33 15.3%
5+ OAs 19 8.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2019: 0.0% 2019 2020: 22.2% 2020 2021: 16.1% 2021 2022: 13.3% 2022 2023: 30.0% 2023 2024: 29.6% 2024 2025: 26.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2019200.0%
202018422.2%
202131516.1%
202230413.3%
202330930.0%
202427829.6%
202534926.5%
20264300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 214 1.4% 8.4% 88.8% 0.0%
Action 2 148 5.4% 6.1% 86.5% 0.7%
Action 3 84 10.7% 1.2% 88.1% 0.0%
Action 4 52 17.3% 0.0% 82.7% 0.0%
Action 5 19 15.8% 0.0% 84.2% 0.0%
Action 6 12 41.7% 0.0% 58.3% 0.0%
Action 7 3 33.3% 0.0% 33.3% 33.3%
Action 8 3 33.3% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 9 2 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 9.0% 25 of 277 office actions
All years 9.5% 52 of 548 office actions
Change -0.5 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%
2014: Alice
50.0%
100.0%
100.0%
100.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
12.3%
19.1%
3.7%
4.7%
2024: AI examples
7.1%
2025: August memo
10.6%
8.9%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 5. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.9 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 29, 2025 16/113,597 Affirmed New ground of rejection §101 · §112
Apr. 2, 2025 16/546,791 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jan. 22, 2025 16/383,019 Affirmed §101 · §103
Sep. 12, 2023 16/417,766 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Apr. 14, 2023 16/026,099 Affirmed §101

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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