Examiner Alexander Matta

Grant ratio: 45.2% (28th percentile in Art Unit 3668 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.55. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 45.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.55
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
95478
Primary art unit
3668
Work group
3660
Technology center
3600
Applications
186
Granted applications
84
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4296
Supervisor
James Lee
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5965

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 46 57.9% 1.80
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 2.31 429 office actions across 186 applications
Applications with office actions 95.7% 178 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 8 4.3%
1 OA 49 26.3%
2 OAs 61 32.8%
3 OAs 33 17.7%
4 OAs 21 11.3%
5+ OAs 14 7.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 100.0% 2020 2021: 57.1% 2021 2022: 57.7% 2022 2023: 72.7% 2023 2024: 75.0% 2024 2025: 34.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202011100.0%
2021211257.1%
2022261557.7%
2023332472.7%
2024282175.0%
2025321134.4%
20264500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 178 1.1% 1.1% 95.5% 0.6%
Action 2 129 0.0% 1.6% 97.7% 0.8%
Action 3 68 1.5% 0.0% 97.1% 0.0%
Action 4 35 0.0% 0.0% 94.3% 2.9%
Action 5 14 7.1% 0.0% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 6 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.7% 4 of 234 office actions
All years 0.9% 4 of 429 office actions
Change +0.8 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.6%
2025: August memo
2.3%
1.7%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 22, 2025 17/460,793 Reversed §102 · §103
Mar. 17, 2023 15/880,202 Affirmed §103 · §112

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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