Examiner Frederick Calvetti

Grant ratio: 49.6% (27th percentile in Art Unit 3742 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.84. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: March 2025
Grant ratio 49.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.84
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88289
Primary art unit
3742
Work group
3740
Technology center
3700
Applications
466
Granted applications
231

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 39 52.5% 2.19
Group 444 57.6% 1.86
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.75 1,283 office actions across 467 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 467 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 135 28.9%
2 OAs 117 25.1%
3 OAs 74 15.8%
4 OAs 77 16.5%
5+ OAs 64 13.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 100.0% 2008 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 28.9% 2013 2014: 38.2% 2014 2015: 21.1% 2015 2016: 40.0% 2016 2017: 44.8% 2017 2018: 62.5% 2018 2019: 59.6% 2019 2020: 65.0% 2020 2021: 53.3% 2021 2022: 58.6% 2022 2023: 64.7% 2023 2024: 64.7% 2024 2025: 60.0% 2025

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200811100.0%
2012900.0%
2013381128.9%
2014341338.2%
201538821.1%
2016451840.0%
2017291344.8%
2018483062.5%
2019523159.6%
2020402665.0%
2021301653.3%
2022291758.6%
2023342264.7%
2024342264.7%
20255360.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 467 0.2% 12.4% 86.3% 0.4%
Action 2 332 0.0% 5.1% 88.6% 6.0%
Action 3 215 0.0% 5.6% 87.0% 7.0%
Action 4 141 0.0% 2.8% 83.7% 13.5%
Action 5 64 0.0% 3.1% 81.3% 14.1%
Action 6 30 0.0% 10.0% 76.7% 13.3%
Action 7 17 0.0% 11.8% 76.5% 11.8%
Action 8 11 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 9 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.1% 1 of 94 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 1,283 office actions
Change +1.0 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%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
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

Matched decisions: 25. Merits outcomes: 7 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 16 reversed.

Full reversal rate
64.0% 16/25 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
72.0% 18/25 decisions
Median appeal duration
23.0 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 2, 2025 16/735,834 Affirmed §103
Jun. 28, 2023 15/874,931 Affirmed §112
May. 31, 2019 13/003,513 Reversed §103 · §120
Mar. 21, 2019 13/786,240 Reversed §103
Feb. 8, 2019 13/787,150 Reversed N/A
Dec. 26, 2018 13/346,830 Affirmed §103
Dec. 21, 2018 12/994,700 Reversed N/A
Sep. 28, 2018 13/123,993 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Sep. 24, 2018 14/167,094 Reversed §103
Aug. 30, 2018 12/207,112 Reversed N/A
Jun. 18, 2018 12/905,480 Reversed New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Jun. 13, 2018 12/880,390 Reversed §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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