Examiner Elizabeth H Rosen

Grant ratio: 35.3% (61st percentile in Art Unit 3693 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.59. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 35.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.59
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
83593
Primary art unit
3693
Work group
3690
Technology center
3600
Applications
292
Granted applications
103
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1850
Supervisor
Kambiz Abdi
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6702

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 31.0% 2.44
Group 163 34.3% 2.69
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.32 676 office actions across 292 applications
Applications with office actions 95.2% 278 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 14 4.8%
1 OA 107 36.6%
2 OAs 69 23.6%
3 OAs 37 12.7%
4 OAs 38 13.0%
5+ OAs 27 9.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 4.8% 2008 2009: 43.5% 2009 2010: 70.0% 2010 2011: 50.0% 2011 2012: 100.0% 2012 2017: 0.0% 2017 2018: 50.0% 2018 2019: 22.2% 2019 2020: 45.5% 2020 2021: 60.7% 2021 2022: 59.3% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 30.8% 2024 2025: 21.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20082114.8%
2009231043.5%
2010201470.0%
2011201050.0%
201288100.0%
2017200.0%
20182150.0%
201918422.2%
202011545.5%
2021281760.7%
2022271659.3%
202318950.0%
202413430.8%
202519421.1%
20266200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 278 8.3% 8.3% 67.3% 2.2%
Action 2 171 19.3% 4.7% 67.8% 1.2%
Action 3 102 31.4% 2.9% 55.9% 2.9%
Action 4 65 36.9% 0.0% 55.4% 1.5%
Action 5 27 29.6% 0.0% 63.0% 3.7%
Action 6 15 26.7% 0.0% 60.0% 6.7%
Action 7 10 60.0% 0.0% 40.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 50.0% 0.0% 0.0% 50.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Action 10 1 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 38.2% 81 of 212 office actions
All years 20.0% 135 of 676 office actions
Change +18.2 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%
0.0%
0.0%
35.3%
2019: PEG
10.2%
14.6%
16.9%
43.5%
19.4%
2024: AI examples
31.4%
2025: August memo
29.5%
52.6%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 5. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
6.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 14, 2026 17/842,321 Affirmed §101 · §112
Apr. 17, 2026 16/951,846 Affirmed §101 · §112
Sep. 22, 2025 16/571,641 Affirmed §101
Apr. 30, 2025 15/853,067 Affirmed §101 · §102
Aug. 16, 2023 16/604,853 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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