Examiner Keith Raymond

Grant ratio: 51.2% (65th percentile in Art Unit 3744 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.40. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: September 2026
Grant ratio 51.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.40
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
88035
Primary art unit
3744
Work group
3740
Technology center
3700
Applications
410
Granted applications
210
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1790
Supervisor
Jonathan Moffat
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4390

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 59 35.6% 2.12
Group 443 57.4% 1.86
Tech Center 2,685 47.8% 2.01
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.29 970 office actions across 423 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 423 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 154 36.4%
2 OAs 134 31.7%
3 OAs 57 13.5%
4 OAs 38 9.0%
5+ OAs 40 9.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 30.0% 2011 2012: 38.1% 2012 2013: 63.8% 2013 2014: 52.1% 2014 2015: 64.4% 2015 2016: 57.4% 2016 2017: 60.8% 2017 2018: 50.0% 2018 2019: 59.4% 2019 2020: 55.6% 2020 2025: 20.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201120630.0%
2012421638.1%
2013473063.8%
2014482552.1%
2015452964.4%
2016472757.4%
2017513160.8%
2018402050.0%
2019321959.4%
20209555.6%
202510220.0%
20261900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 423 0.2% 1.4% 88.4% 9.0%
Action 2 269 0.4% 1.5% 89.2% 8.2%
Action 3 135 0.0% 3.7% 90.4% 5.9%
Action 4 78 0.0% 2.6% 94.9% 2.6%
Action 5 40 0.0% 2.5% 90.0% 7.5%
Action 6 21 0.0% 0.0% 90.5% 4.8%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 40 office actions
All years 0.2% 2 of 970 office actions
Change -0.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2014: Alice
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
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: 18. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
38.9% 7/18 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
55.6% 10/18 decisions
Median appeal duration
23.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 15, 2021 14/601,462 Reversed §103 · §112
Jun. 7, 2021 15/925,873 Reversed §102 · §103
Nov. 30, 2020 15/182,050 Affirmed in part §103
Nov. 3, 2020 14/808,620 Affirmed §103
Oct. 30, 2018 13/745,037 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jul. 31, 2018 14/345,717 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Jul. 25, 2018 13/807,327 Affirmed in part §103
Mar. 28, 2018 12/799,061 Reversed §103
Oct. 16, 2017 12/691,100 Reversed §103
Jul. 31, 2017 12/512,732 Affirmed §103
Mar. 29, 2017 13/531,965 Affirmed §103
Nov. 30, 2016 13/119,456 Affirmed N/A

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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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