Examiner Leonard J. Weinstein

Grant ratio: 50.3% (21st percentile in Art Unit 3746 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.20. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: September 2011
Grant ratio 50.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.20
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
82593
Primary art unit
3746
Work group
3740
Technology center
3700
Applications
197
Granted applications
99

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 43 50.0% 2.10
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 2.05 403 office actions across 197 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 197 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 72 36.5%
2 OAs 79 40.1%
3 OAs 22 11.2%
4 OAs 16 8.1%
5+ OAs 8 4.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 42.6% 2008 2009: 50.9% 2009 2010: 58.3% 2010 2011: 47.4% 2011

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008612642.6%
2009572950.9%
2010603558.3%
201119947.4%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 197 0.0% 20.8% 64.0% 10.7%
Action 2 125 0.0% 18.4% 68.0% 13.6%
Action 3 46 0.0% 17.4% 67.4% 15.2%
Action 4 24 0.0% 25.0% 45.8% 25.0%
Action 5 8 0.0% 12.5% 50.0% 37.5%
Action 6 3 0.0% 33.3% 33.3% 33.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 403 office actions
Change N/A Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

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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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