Examiner Joshua Campbell

Grant ratio: 47.5% (1st percentile in Art Unit 3747 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.19. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 47.5%
Average office actions / grant 3.19
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
90454
Primary art unit
3747
Work group
3740
Technology center
3700
Applications
463
Granted applications
220
Examiner phone
(571) 272-8215

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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 3.10 1,436 office actions across 463 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 461 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.4%
1 OA 114 24.6%
2 OAs 111 24.0%
3 OAs 74 16.0%
4 OAs 59 12.7%
5+ OAs 103 22.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 16.7% 2013 2014: 45.0% 2014 2015: 43.8% 2015 2016: 44.1% 2016 2017: 30.8% 2017 2018: 47.7% 2018 2019: 57.1% 2019 2020: 45.9% 2020 2021: 58.1% 2021 2022: 64.1% 2022 2023: 64.5% 2023 2024: 67.6% 2024 2025: 45.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20136116.7%
201420945.0%
2015321443.8%
2016341544.1%
201726830.8%
2018442147.7%
2019422457.1%
2020371745.9%
2021432558.1%
2022392564.1%
2023312064.5%
2024372567.6%
2025351645.7%
20263700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 461 0.7% 7.8% 86.1% 1.5%
Action 2 347 0.6% 2.6% 90.8% 2.0%
Action 3 236 0.0% 2.1% 92.8% 1.7%
Action 4 162 0.0% 1.9% 94.4% 1.2%
Action 5 103 0.0% 1.0% 95.1% 0.0%
Action 6 58 0.0% 1.7% 93.1% 0.0%
Action 7 35 0.0% 2.9% 88.6% 0.0%
Action 8 19 0.0% 0.0% 94.7% 0.0%
Action 9 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.2% 5 of 228 office actions
All years 0.3% 5 of 1,436 office actions
Change +1.8 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
3.8%
2025: August memo
0.0%
4.7%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 15. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 4 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
46.7% 7/15 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
73.3% 11/15 decisions
Median appeal duration
18.7 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 27, 2025 16/326,115 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Dec. 20, 2024 16/199,800 Reversed §103
Dec. 30, 2022 15/721,477 Affirmed §103 · §112
Oct. 3, 2022 16/000,369 Reversed N/A
Mar. 26, 2021 13/690,754 Affirmed §102 · §103
Nov. 19, 2020 13/900,421 Reversed §102 · §103
Dec. 19, 2019 15/241,144 Affirmed §102 · §103
Sep. 27, 2019 13/620,021 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Aug. 2, 2019 13/410,159 Reversed §103
Aug. 2, 2019 13/353,240 Reversed §103
Oct. 29, 2018 13/897,576 Affirmed in part §103
Sep. 28, 2018 13/004,395 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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