Examiner Pierre L Maccagno

Grant ratio: 14.2% (24th percentile in Art Unit 3687 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.88. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: July 2026
Grant ratio 14.2%
Average office actions / grant 3.88
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
95086
Primary art unit
3687
Work group
3680
Technology center
3600
Applications
183
Granted applications
26
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5408
Supervisor
Mamon Obeid
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1813

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 31 31.5% 2.56
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 2.79 511 office actions across 183 applications
Applications with office actions 96.7% 177 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 6 3.3%
1 OA 46 25.1%
2 OAs 60 32.8%
3 OAs 20 10.9%
4 OAs 24 13.1%
5+ OAs 27 14.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2019: 100.0% 2019 2020: 28.6% 2020 2021: 21.1% 2021 2022: 10.5% 2022 2023: 26.1% 2023 2024: 21.4% 2024 2025: 2.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201911100.0%
202021628.6%
202119421.1%
202219210.5%
202323626.1%
202428621.4%
20253412.9%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 177 24.9% 4.5% 67.8% 2.8%
Action 2 131 45.0% 4.6% 46.6% 2.3%
Action 3 71 42.3% 2.8% 50.7% 4.2%
Action 4 51 41.2% 3.9% 49.0% 5.9%
Action 5 27 33.3% 0.0% 59.3% 3.7%
Action 6 22 36.4% 0.0% 54.5% 9.1%
Action 7 11 45.5% 0.0% 54.5% 0.0%
Action 8 7 85.7% 0.0% 14.3% 0.0%
Action 9 3 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 33.3% 78 of 234 office actions
All years 38.2% 195 of 511 office actions
Change -4.8 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2019: PEG
0.0%
51.9%
52.0%
30.1%
29.1%
2024: AI examples
39.8%
2025: August memo
28.8%
35.7%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
7.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 26, 2025 17/842,431 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Sep. 12, 2024 16/420,744 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Jan. 8, 2024 16/536,175 Affirmed §101 · §112
Aug. 30, 2023 16/536,866 Affirmed §101

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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