Examiner Rachelle Reichert

Grant ratio: 21.9% (21st percentile in Art Unit 3686 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.50. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 21.9%
Average office actions / grant 3.50
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
92644
Primary art unit
3686
Work group
3680
Technology center
3600
Applications
247
Granted applications
54
Examiner phone
(303) 297-4782
Supervisor
Jason Dunham
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-8109

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 42 32.1% 2.69
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 2.66 656 office actions across 247 applications
Applications with office actions 93.1% 230 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 17 6.9%
1 OA 65 26.3%
2 OAs 60 24.3%
3 OAs 34 13.8%
4 OAs 34 13.8%
5+ OAs 37 15.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 0.0% 2016 2017: 13.6% 2017 2018: 30.8% 2018 2019: 30.0% 2019 2020: 38.5% 2020 2021: 35.7% 2021 2022: 57.9% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 0.0% 2024 2025: 10.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2015700.0%
20161400.0%
201722313.6%
2018391230.8%
201920630.0%
2020261038.5%
202114535.7%
2022191157.9%
202310550.0%
20241000.0%
202519210.5%
20264700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 230 10.4% 8.7% 73.9% 2.6%
Action 2 165 24.8% 12.7% 53.9% 7.3%
Action 3 105 29.5% 7.6% 62.9% 0.0%
Action 4 71 35.2% 2.8% 57.7% 1.4%
Action 5 37 32.4% 2.7% 51.4% 8.1%
Action 6 26 42.3% 0.0% 53.8% 0.0%
Action 7 9 33.3% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 8 6 50.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 33.3% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 38.2% 66 of 173 office actions
All years 23.0% 151 of 656 office actions
Change +15.1 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
10.5%
4.4%
27.2%
41.0%
2019: PEG
10.1%
7.1%
17.6%
8.6%
24.1%
2024: AI examples
41.9%
2025: August memo
35.3%
40.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 11. Merits outcomes: 10 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
9.1% 1/11 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
9.1% 1/11 decisions
Median appeal duration
11.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 13, 2026 16/985,839 Affirmed §101
Jan. 30, 2025 16/312,092 Affirmed §101 · §103
Nov. 21, 2024 16/129,109 Affirmed §101 · §120
May. 18, 2021 15/570,795 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jan. 26, 2021 15/035,617 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jun. 8, 2020 14/873,837 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
May. 15, 2020 13/616,342 Affirmed §101
Apr. 17, 2020 14/169,391 Affirmed §101 · §103
Feb. 12, 2020 14/252,098 Affirmed §103
Aug. 1, 2019 14/257,232 Reversed §101 · §102 · §103
Feb. 13, 2019 14/221,415 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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