Examiner Gonzalo Laguarda

Grant ratio: 63.2% (21st percentile in Art Unit 3747 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.18. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 63.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.18
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89051
Primary art unit
3747
Work group
3740
Technology center
3700
Applications
772
Granted applications
488
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5920
Supervisor
Logan Kraft
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5065

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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 2.22 1,712 office actions across 772 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 769 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.4%
1 OA 272 35.2%
2 OAs 265 34.3%
3 OAs 108 14.0%
4 OAs 77 10.0%
5+ OAs 47 6.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 20.0% 2012 2013: 45.5% 2013 2014: 68.8% 2014 2015: 54.1% 2015 2016: 61.3% 2016 2017: 77.1% 2017 2018: 84.7% 2018 2019: 86.2% 2019 2020: 75.9% 2020 2021: 80.6% 2021 2022: 80.4% 2022 2023: 69.5% 2023 2024: 76.9% 2024 2025: 37.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20125120.0%
2013221045.5%
2014483368.8%
2015613354.1%
2016623861.3%
2017705477.1%
2018595084.7%
2019655686.2%
2020544175.9%
2021362980.6%
2022514180.4%
2023594169.5%
2024524076.9%
2025562137.5%
20267200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 769 1.0% 2.5% 64.6% 4.4%
Action 2 497 0.8% 2.0% 75.3% 3.6%
Action 3 232 0.9% 0.4% 83.2% 3.4%
Action 4 124 0.0% 0.0% 84.7% 4.8%
Action 5 47 0.0% 0.0% 89.4% 2.1%
Action 6 22 0.0% 0.0% 95.5% 0.0%
Action 7 10 0.0% 0.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.5% 2 of 370 office actions
All years 0.8% 14 of 1,712 office actions
Change -0.3 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%
3.3%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
0.8%
2019: PEG
3.9%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
2.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 31. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 28 reversed.

Full reversal rate
90.3% 28/31 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
93.5% 29/31 decisions
Median appeal duration
20.0 months
New grounds of rejection
3
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 13, 2024 16/389,094 Reversed §103
Sep. 25, 2024 16/689,937 Reversed §103
Nov. 3, 2023 16/928,336 Reversed §103
Sep. 21, 2020 14/038,555 Reversed §103 · §112
Nov. 29, 2019 14/042,971 Reversed §103
Oct. 29, 2019 13/928,929 Reversed §102 · §103
Jan. 11, 2019 13/410,337 Reversed §101 · §103
Aug. 28, 2018 13/967,911 Reversed N/A
Aug. 23, 2018 13/941,883 Reversed N/A
Jul. 5, 2018 14/371,063 Affirmed §102
Jun. 20, 2018 13/290,437 Reversed §103 · §112
May. 30, 2018 14/004,426 Reversed §112

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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