Examiner Abigail Rhue

Grant ratio: 29.4% (27th percentile in Art Unit 3761 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.95. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 29.4%
Average office actions / grant 2.95
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
96221
Primary art unit
3761
Work group
3760
Technology center
3700
Applications
218
Granted applications
64
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4615
Supervisor
Helena Kosanovic
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-9059

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 90 35.0% 2.17
Group 390 47.5% 2.10
Tech Center 2,685 47.8% 2.01
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.69 586 office actions across 218 applications
Applications with office actions 94.5% 206 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 12 5.5%
1 OA 66 30.3%
2 OAs 42 19.3%
3 OAs 32 14.7%
4 OAs 19 8.7%
5+ OAs 47 21.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2021: 25.0% 2021 2022: 77.8% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 52.9% 2024 2025: 12.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20214125.0%
2022272177.8%
2023381950.0%
2024341852.9%
202541512.2%
20267400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 206 0.0% 2.9% 94.7% 1.0%
Action 2 140 0.0% 1.4% 95.7% 2.1%
Action 3 98 0.0% 1.0% 96.9% 1.0%
Action 4 66 0.0% 1.5% 95.5% 1.5%
Action 5 47 0.0% 0.0% 95.7% 4.3%
Action 6 22 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 342 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 586 office actions
Change 0.0 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%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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