Examiner Shane E Douglas

Grant ratio: 0.0% (3rd percentile in Art Unit 3665 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: June 2026
Grant ratio 0.0%
Average office actions / grant N/A
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
99996
Primary art unit
3665
Work group
3660
Technology center
3600
Applications
58
Granted applications
0
Examiner phone
(703) 756-1417
Supervisor
Christian Chace
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4190

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 50 43.7% 2.00
Group 454 54.1% 1.86
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.05 119 office actions across 58 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 58 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 18 31.0%
2 OAs 25 43.1%
3 OAs 9 15.5%
4 OAs 6 10.3%
5+ OAs 0 0.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2024: 0.0% 2024 2025: 0.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2024100.0%
20253000.0%
20262700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 58 1.7% 8.6% 87.9% 0.0%
Action 2 40 5.0% 2.5% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 3 15 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.5% 3 of 119 office actions
All years 2.5% 3 of 119 office actions
Change 0.0 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
3.7%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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