Examiner Donald H.B. Braswell

Grant ratio: 69.7% (65th percentile in Art Unit 3648 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.58. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 69.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.58
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
92342
Primary art unit
3648
Work group
3640
Technology center
3600
Applications
452
Granted applications
315
Examiner phone
(469) 295-9119
Supervisor
Vladimir Magloire
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5144

Save this analysis

Download this examiner report.

Log in / Sign Up to export

Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 49 51.9% 1.69
Group 281 52.9% 1.75
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.72 777 office actions across 452 applications
Applications with office actions 99.1% 448 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 0.9%
1 OA 281 62.2%
2 OAs 89 19.7%
3 OAs 32 7.1%
4 OAs 24 5.3%
5+ OAs 22 4.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 37.5% 2015 2016: 52.0% 2016 2017: 58.6% 2017 2018: 67.6% 2018 2019: 72.7% 2019 2020: 80.6% 2020 2021: 95.1% 2021 2022: 88.9% 2022 2023: 94.7% 2023 2024: 84.6% 2024 2025: 40.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20158337.5%
2016251352.0%
2017291758.6%
2018342367.6%
2019443272.7%
2020362980.6%
2021615895.1%
2022544888.9%
2023575494.7%
2024262284.6%
2025401640.0%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 448 1.8% 9.4% 75.0% 3.6%
Action 2 167 0.0% 8.4% 83.8% 0.6%
Action 3 78 0.0% 5.1% 88.5% 0.0%
Action 4 46 0.0% 0.0% 95.7% 2.2%
Action 5 22 0.0% 4.5% 90.9% 0.0%
Action 6 9 0.0% 11.1% 77.8% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.2% 2 of 170 office actions
All years 1.0% 8 of 777 office actions
Change +0.1 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2014: Alice
25.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
3.8%
1.4%
1.4%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
1.8%
2.2%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
11.4 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 19, 2020 14/729,121 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Aug. 2, 2019 14/631,310 Affirmed §101 · §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.

Job History

These are temporarily preserved for your convenience, but expire quickly for your security. We never save substantive inputs, pasted text, and/or uploaded files.

Jobs will appear here.