Examiner Amie M N'Dure

Grant ratio: 67.5% (63rd percentile in Art Unit 3645 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.97. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 67.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.97
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
90846
Primary art unit
3645
Work group
3640
Technology center
3600
Applications
582
Granted applications
393
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6031
Supervisor
Isam Alsomire
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6970

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 51 38.2% 1.62
Group 280 52.3% 1.75
Tech Center 2,394 45.5% 2.12
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.88 1,092 office actions across 582 applications
Applications with office actions 99.1% 577 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 5 0.9%
1 OA 301 51.7%
2 OAs 153 26.3%
3 OAs 50 8.6%
4 OAs 44 7.6%
5+ OAs 29 5.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 100.0% 2011 2014: 73.7% 2014 2015: 62.8% 2015 2016: 80.0% 2016 2017: 82.2% 2017 2018: 66.7% 2018 2019: 72.9% 2019 2020: 71.4% 2020 2021: 79.5% 2021 2022: 84.7% 2022 2023: 90.0% 2023 2024: 84.4% 2024 2025: 45.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201111100.0%
2014191473.7%
2015432762.8%
2016453680.0%
2017453782.2%
2018422866.7%
2019594372.9%
2020634571.4%
2021443579.5%
2022595084.7%
2023302790.0%
2024322784.4%
2025512345.1%
20264900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 577 2.4% 17.3% 69.3% 2.8%
Action 2 276 1.1% 5.8% 87.0% 4.0%
Action 3 123 0.0% 4.1% 94.3% 0.0%
Action 4 73 1.4% 1.4% 91.8% 1.4%
Action 5 29 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.4% 6 of 174 office actions
All years 1.6% 18 of 1,092 office actions
Change +1.8 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
1.9%
1.9%
2.9%
1.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.7%
0.0%
1.4%
1.2%
4.9%
2024: AI examples
4.3%
2025: August memo
3.2%
3.5%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
57.1% 4/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
57.1% 4/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.4 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 10, 2025 16/229,655 Affirmed §103
Feb. 15, 2024 15/129,533 Affirmed §103
Jun. 22, 2020 14/324,203 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Dec. 17, 2018 13/606,601 Reversed §102 · §103
Apr. 19, 2018 13/835,711 Reversed §102 · §103
Dec. 18, 2017 13/171,195 Reversed §103
Sep. 28, 2017 13/156,104 Reversed §102

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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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