Examiner Kyle Logan

Grant ratio: 82.2% (62nd percentile in Art Unit 3651 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.62. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 82.2%
Average office actions / grant 1.62
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
87476
Primary art unit
3651
Work group
3650
Technology center
3600
Applications
813
Granted applications
668
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7769
Supervisor
Gene Crawford
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6911

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 65.5% 1.67
Group 255 56.6% 1.70
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.59 1,296 office actions across 813 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 811 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.2%
1 OA 521 64.1%
2 OAs 172 21.2%
3 OAs 74 9.1%
4 OAs 24 3.0%
5+ OAs 20 2.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 52.0% 2011 2012: 76.4% 2012 2013: 81.4% 2013 2014: 86.8% 2014 2015: 91.2% 2015 2016: 88.1% 2016 2017: 92.7% 2017 2018: 95.5% 2018 2019: 90.0% 2019 2020: 96.1% 2020 2021: 86.3% 2021 2022: 97.4% 2022 2023: 89.7% 2023 2024: 91.1% 2024 2025: 34.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2011251352.0%
2012554276.4%
2013594881.4%
2014685986.8%
2015575291.2%
2016675988.1%
2017555192.7%
2018444295.5%
2019403690.0%
2020514996.1%
2021514486.3%
2022393897.4%
2023787089.7%
2024565191.1%
2025411434.1%
20262700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 811 1.4% 16.4% 66.5% 8.6%
Action 2 290 1.7% 9.3% 79.3% 6.6%
Action 3 118 1.7% 5.1% 83.9% 6.8%
Action 4 44 0.0% 2.3% 90.9% 6.8%
Action 5 20 0.0% 0.0% 90.0% 10.0%
Action 6 8 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 7 5 0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 40.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.0% 5 of 164 office actions
All years 1.4% 18 of 1,296 office actions
Change +1.7 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%
1.2%
1.6%
1.2%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
2.4%
1.1%
0.0%
2019: PEG
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
1.5%
3.8%
2024: AI examples
3.0%
2025: August memo
4.3%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
75.0% 3/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
19.6 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 25, 2025 17/035,110 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Sep. 27, 2023 16/347,047 Reversed §112
Dec. 15, 2015 12/509,207 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Sep. 28, 2015 12/212,972 Reversed 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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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