Examiner Grant Moubry

Grant ratio: 75.4% (63rd percentile in Art Unit 3747 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.60. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 75.4%
Average office actions / grant 1.60
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87825
Primary art unit
3747
Work group
3740
Technology center
3700
Applications
867
Granted applications
654
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5658
Supervisor
Lindsay M. Low
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1196

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 54 72.3% 1.66
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 1.62 1,404 office actions across 867 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 864 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.3%
1 OA 524 60.4%
2 OAs 231 26.6%
3 OAs 57 6.6%
4 OAs 28 3.2%
5+ OAs 24 2.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 77.8% 2011 2012: 68.3% 2012 2013: 70.0% 2013 2014: 80.3% 2014 2015: 69.2% 2015 2016: 78.2% 2016 2017: 67.3% 2017 2018: 80.0% 2018 2019: 75.5% 2019 2020: 77.8% 2020 2021: 87.5% 2021 2022: 86.7% 2022 2023: 92.5% 2023 2024: 89.3% 2024 2025: 58.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2011362877.8%
2012634368.3%
2013604270.0%
2014766180.3%
2015523669.2%
2016876878.2%
2017493367.3%
2018554480.0%
2019493775.5%
2020453577.8%
2021564987.5%
2022605286.7%
2023534992.5%
2024565089.3%
2025462758.7%
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 864 1.7% 11.8% 66.7% 11.9%
Action 2 340 0.9% 8.8% 80.3% 5.3%
Action 3 109 0.0% 4.6% 85.3% 5.5%
Action 4 52 0.0% 5.8% 90.4% 0.0%
Action 5 24 0.0% 0.0% 83.3% 16.7%
Action 6 11 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.9% 5 of 170 office actions
All years 1.3% 18 of 1,404 office actions
Change +1.7 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%
0.8%
0.0%
2014: Alice
1.6%
0.0%
2.2%
1.1%
2.4%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
2.3%
2.5%
2024: AI examples
3.1%
2025: August memo
0.0%
8.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
71.4% 5/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
85.7% 6/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.1 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 28, 2023 16/556,106 Affirmed §103
May. 17, 2022 15/665,024 Reversed §103
Nov. 3, 2020 14/801,163 Reversed §103
Feb. 12, 2018 14/217,984 Reversed §103 · §112
Sep. 27, 2017 13/534,383 Reversed §103
Dec. 13, 2016 13/454,344 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §102 · §103
Aug. 19, 2015 12/401,146 Reversed 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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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