Examiner Stacy Warren

Grant ratio: 55.1% (25th percentile in Art Unit 3678 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.18. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 55.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.18
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88849
Primary art unit
3678
Work group
3670
Technology center
3600
Applications
508
Granted applications
280
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7515
Supervisor
Amber Anderson
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5281

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 18 59.6% 1.95
Group 238 58.8% 1.84
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.21 1,122 office actions across 508 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 507 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.2%
1 OA 215 42.3%
2 OAs 138 27.2%
3 OAs 67 13.2%
4 OAs 49 9.6%
5+ OAs 38 7.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 53.3% 2012 2013: 48.6% 2013 2014: 46.5% 2014 2015: 51.2% 2015 2016: 52.4% 2016 2017: 70.6% 2017 2018: 66.0% 2018 2019: 69.6% 2019 2020: 75.0% 2020 2021: 81.3% 2021 2022: 72.7% 2022 2023: 70.3% 2023 2024: 65.9% 2024 2025: 38.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201215853.3%
2013351748.6%
2014432046.5%
2015412151.2%
2016422252.4%
2017342470.6%
2018473166.0%
2019231669.6%
2020201575.0%
2021322681.3%
202211872.7%
2023372670.3%
2024442965.9%
2025441738.6%
20264000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 507 0.0% 7.5% 70.6% 21.5%
Action 2 292 0.0% 4.8% 83.2% 11.6%
Action 3 154 0.0% 5.8% 86.4% 7.8%
Action 4 87 0.0% 3.4% 88.5% 8.0%
Action 5 38 0.0% 5.3% 81.6% 10.5%
Action 6 26 0.0% 0.0% 84.6% 15.4%
Action 7 11 0.0% 0.0% 81.8% 18.2%
Action 8 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 240 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 1,122 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

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 6. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/6 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 2/6 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jan. 14, 2026 17/696,575 Affirmed §103 · §112
Apr. 30, 2024 16/707,499 Affirmed §103 · §112
Aug. 11, 2020 14/501,111 Affirmed §103
Mar. 22, 2019 14/689,642 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Mar. 23, 2017 13/102,083 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Sep. 30, 2016 13/145,349 Affirmed §102 · §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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