Examiner Timothy Pham

Grant ratio: 81.5% (77th percentile in Art Unit 3648 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.94. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 81.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.94
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
85483
Primary art unit
3648
Work group
3640
Technology center
3600
Applications
985
Granted applications
803
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7115
Supervisor
Vladimir Magloire
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5144

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 49 51.0% 1.69
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 1.90 1,867 office actions across 985 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 983 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.2%
1 OA 541 54.9%
2 OAs 230 23.4%
3 OAs 95 9.6%
4 OAs 54 5.5%
5+ OAs 63 6.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 25.0% 2008 2009: 48.4% 2009 2010: 61.2% 2010 2011: 79.2% 2011 2012: 83.7% 2012 2013: 98.2% 2013 2014: 90.0% 2014 2015: 80.4% 2015 2016: 88.7% 2016 2017: 86.9% 2017 2018: 85.5% 2018 2019: 97.4% 2019 2020: 91.0% 2020 2021: 87.7% 2021 2022: 98.1% 2022 2023: 88.2% 2023 2024: 90.6% 2024 2025: 58.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20084125.0%
2009311548.4%
2010493061.2%
2011483879.2%
2012494183.7%
2013555498.2%
2014605490.0%
2015514180.4%
2016534788.7%
2017615386.9%
2018695985.5%
2019787697.4%
2020787191.0%
2021575087.7%
2022525198.1%
2023514588.2%
2024534890.6%
2025502958.0%
20263600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 983 3.2% 9.7% 76.3% 3.6%
Action 2 442 1.1% 7.9% 80.5% 4.8%
Action 3 212 0.9% 5.7% 84.9% 5.7%
Action 4 117 0.0% 6.0% 88.0% 0.9%
Action 5 63 1.6% 11.1% 77.8% 7.9%
Action 6 28 0.0% 10.7% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 7 15 0.0% 0.0% 80.0% 20.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.9% 7 of 178 office actions
All years 2.1% 39 of 1,867 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%
1.2%
1.7%
0.0%
0.8%
2014: Alice
0.7%
1.0%
1.0%
2.0%
3.2%
2019: PEG
7.6%
6.9%
3.5%
0.0%
1.6%
2024: AI examples
3.2%
2025: August memo
5.2%
4.5%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 1. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
34.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 27, 2015 11/493,720 Affirmed N/A

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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