Examiner Kyle G Robinson

Grant ratio: 9.9% (29th percentile in Art Unit 3681 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 4.16. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 9.9%
Average office actions / grant 4.16
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
90661
Primary art unit
3681
Work group
3680
Technology center
3600
Applications
253
Granted applications
25
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9261
Supervisor
Kambiz Abdi
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6702

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 21 16.3% 3.12
Group 285 28.7% 2.80
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.57 902 office actions across 253 applications
Applications with office actions 99.2% 251 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.8%
1 OA 55 21.7%
2 OAs 55 21.7%
3 OAs 31 12.3%
4 OAs 42 16.6%
5+ OAs 68 26.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 0.0% 2013 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 14.3% 2015 2016: 11.1% 2016 2017: 7.1% 2017 2018: 12.5% 2018 2019: 11.1% 2019 2020: 20.0% 2020 2021: 18.2% 2021 2022: 8.3% 2022 2023: 23.8% 2023 2024: 4.5% 2024 2025: 0.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2013100.0%
20141000.0%
20157114.3%
201618211.1%
20171417.1%
201816212.5%
201918211.1%
202030620.0%
202122418.2%
20221218.3%
202321523.8%
20242214.5%
20252200.0%
20264000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 251 7.6% 3.2% 82.9% 4.0%
Action 2 196 29.6% 15.8% 48.0% 5.6%
Action 3 141 34.0% 7.8% 54.6% 2.8%
Action 4 110 38.2% 6.4% 50.9% 3.6%
Action 5 68 36.8% 4.4% 57.4% 1.5%
Action 6 49 38.8% 2.0% 57.1% 2.0%
Action 7 23 39.1% 0.0% 60.9% 0.0%
Action 8 15 26.7% 0.0% 66.7% 6.7%
Action 9 12 25.0% 0.0% 66.7% 8.3%
Action 10 11 27.3% 0.0% 72.7% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 19.5% 45 of 231 office actions
All years 26.2% 236 of 902 office actions
Change -6.7 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%
0.0%
14.3%
2014: Alice
12.5%
27.3%
44.3%
47.4%
33.8%
2019: PEG
24.5%
22.2%
24.2%
14.3%
27.1%
2024: AI examples
21.3%
2025: August memo
12.5%
20.8%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 10. Merits outcomes: 10 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/10 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/10 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.2 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 18, 2025 17/414,198 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Apr. 30, 2024 15/040,883 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 14, 2023 14/758,441 Affirmed New ground of rejection §101 · §103 · §112
Feb. 27, 2023 14/801,638 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Nov. 25, 2022 15/160,226 Affirmed §101
Apr. 12, 2022 14/788,227 Affirmed §101
Mar. 18, 2022 14/178,142 Affirmed §101
Apr. 1, 2020 14/073,595 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
May. 15, 2019 14/060,862 Affirmed §101
May. 1, 2019 13/689,296 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.

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