Examiner Robert C Moore

Grant ratio: 52.5% (50th percentile in Art Unit 3723 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.07. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: January 2025
Grant ratio 52.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.07
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
94742
Primary art unit
3723
Work group
3720
Technology center
3700
Applications
179
Granted applications
94

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 87 44.4% 1.69
Group 314 51.5% 1.76
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.01 400 office actions across 199 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 199 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 93 46.7%
2 OAs 61 30.7%
3 OAs 21 10.6%
4 OAs 13 6.5%
5+ OAs 11 5.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2019: 50.0% 2019 2020: 60.0% 2020 2021: 31.6% 2021 2022: 54.5% 2022 2023: 55.3% 2023 2024: 56.5% 2024 2025: 37.5% 2025

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20194250.0%
2020201260.0%
202119631.6%
2022442454.5%
2023382155.3%
2024462656.5%
20258337.5%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 199 0.0% 6.0% 83.9% 5.0%
Action 2 106 0.0% 7.5% 80.2% 8.5%
Action 3 45 0.0% 8.9% 86.7% 4.4%
Action 4 24 0.0% 8.3% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 5 11 0.0% 9.1% 90.9% 0.0%
Action 6 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 146 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 400 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

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

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 22, 2025 16/650,219 Affirmed N/A
Mar. 4, 2025 17/253,419 Affirmed §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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