Examiner Eric C Baldrighi

Grant ratio: 26.6% (13th percentile in Art Unit 3733 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.75. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 26.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.75
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
96227
Primary art unit
3733
Work group
3730
Technology center
3700
Applications
256
Granted applications
68
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4948

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 55.9% 2.14
Group 289 50.3% 2.22
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.74 701 office actions across 256 applications
Applications with office actions 98.8% 253 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 1.2%
1 OA 69 27.0%
2 OAs 75 29.3%
3 OAs 42 16.4%
4 OAs 32 12.5%
5+ OAs 35 13.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2021: 60.0% 2021 2022: 32.7% 2022 2023: 34.0% 2023 2024: 35.7% 2024 2025: 33.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20215360.0%
2022521732.7%
2023471634.0%
2024421535.7%
2025511733.3%
20265900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 253 0.0% 20.2% 76.7% 0.8%
Action 2 184 0.0% 16.3% 81.5% 1.6%
Action 3 109 0.0% 11.0% 89.0% 0.0%
Action 4 67 0.0% 4.5% 92.5% 1.5%
Action 5 35 0.0% 8.6% 91.4% 0.0%
Action 6 24 0.0% 8.3% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 7 13 0.0% 7.7% 84.6% 15.4%
Action 8 9 0.0% 11.1% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 414 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 701 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

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

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.0 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 11, 2025 17/613,710 Affirmed §103
Aug. 27, 2025 17/328,170 Reversed §103
Aug. 12, 2025 17/555,778 Reversed New ground of rejection §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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