Examiner Jacob Adam Montgomery

Grant ratio: 45.9% (43rd percentile in Art Unit 3723 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: June 2025
Grant ratio 45.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.00
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
96243
Primary art unit
3723
Work group
3720
Technology center
3700
Applications
109
Granted applications
50

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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 2.09 236 office actions across 113 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 113 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 42 37.2%
2 OAs 41 36.3%
3 OAs 14 12.4%
4 OAs 11 9.7%
5+ OAs 5 4.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2021: 81.8% 2021 2022: 57.1% 2022 2023: 60.7% 2023 2024: 27.3% 2024 2025: 10.0% 2025

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202111981.8%
2022281657.1%
2023281760.7%
202422627.3%
202520210.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 113 0.0% 6.2% 86.7% 6.2%
Action 2 71 1.4% 7.0% 85.9% 5.6%
Action 3 30 0.0% 0.0% 96.7% 3.3%
Action 4 16 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.0% 1 of 104 office actions
All years 0.4% 1 of 236 office actions
Change +0.5 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%
1.3%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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