Examiner Jessie Fonseca

Grant ratio: 63.6% (36th percentile in Art Unit 3633 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.98. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 63.6%
Average office actions / grant 1.98
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
83168
Primary art unit
3633
Work group
3630
Technology center
3600
Applications
1,055
Granted applications
671
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7195
Supervisor
Brian Glessner
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6754

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 22 53.1% 1.88
Group 182 51.6% 1.79
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.96 2,071 office actions across 1,055 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 1,053 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.2%
1 OA 492 46.6%
2 OAs 322 30.5%
3 OAs 118 11.2%
4 OAs 76 7.2%
5+ OAs 45 4.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2007: 0.0% 2007 2008: 25.5% 2008 2009: 34.0% 2009 2010: 38.1% 2010 2011: 60.6% 2011 2012: 54.3% 2012 2013: 39.3% 2013 2014: 48.8% 2014 2015: 65.4% 2015 2016: 74.5% 2016 2017: 73.1% 2017 2018: 81.4% 2018 2019: 82.3% 2019 2020: 79.7% 2020 2021: 88.6% 2021 2022: 84.3% 2022 2023: 90.3% 2023 2024: 78.3% 2024 2025: 40.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2007100.0%
2008471225.5%
2009531834.0%
2010421638.1%
2011332060.6%
2012351954.3%
2013281139.3%
2014412048.8%
2015523465.4%
2016513874.5%
2017674973.1%
2018705781.4%
2019796582.3%
2020645179.7%
2021706288.6%
2022705984.3%
2023625690.3%
2024695478.3%
2025743040.5%
20264700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,053 0.5% 13.1% 58.4% 23.6%
Action 2 561 0.7% 5.0% 41.2% 50.4%
Action 3 239 0.4% 8.4% 57.7% 33.1%
Action 4 121 0.0% 10.7% 56.2% 31.4%
Action 5 45 0.0% 11.1% 60.0% 28.9%
Action 6 29 0.0% 6.9% 79.3% 13.8%
Action 7 12 0.0% 0.0% 91.7% 8.3%
Action 8 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.2% 4 of 325 office actions
All years 0.5% 10 of 2,071 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%
0.8%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
2014: Alice
1.0%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
3.5%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 10. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
40.0% 4/10 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 5/10 decisions
Median appeal duration
21.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 31, 2020 15/434,980 Affirmed §102 · §103
Oct. 1, 2020 15/212,629 Affirmed §103
Jul. 30, 2019 14/658,603 Affirmed in part §102 · §103 · §112
Apr. 2, 2018 13/988,891 Reversed §103
Feb. 28, 2017 13/027,368 Affirmed §103 · §112
Dec. 17, 2013 12/205,435 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 30, 2013 11/655,516 Affirmed §103
May. 10, 2012 10/862,824 Reversed N/A
Sep. 16, 2011 10/944,427 Reversed N/A
Jul. 13, 2011 11/021,272 Reversed §103

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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