Examiner Brett P Mallon

Grant ratio: 40.2% (12th percentile in Art Unit 3762 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.49. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 40.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.49
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
96681
Primary art unit
3762
Work group
3760
Technology center
3700
Applications
169
Granted applications
68
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4749
Supervisor
Edelmira Bosques
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5614

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 59 58.2% 1.97
Group 384 48.9% 2.11
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.18 369 office actions across 169 applications
Applications with office actions 92.9% 157 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 12 7.1%
1 OA 52 30.8%
2 OAs 48 28.4%
3 OAs 26 15.4%
4 OAs 18 10.7%
5+ OAs 13 7.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2021: 100.0% 2021 2022: 71.4% 2022 2023: 67.7% 2023 2024: 53.8% 2024 2025: 34.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202133100.0%
2022141071.4%
2023312167.7%
2024392153.8%
2025381334.2%
20264400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 157 0.6% 3.2% 94.9% 0.6%
Action 2 105 0.0% 2.9% 96.2% 1.9%
Action 3 57 0.0% 0.0% 94.7% 5.3%
Action 4 31 0.0% 0.0% 96.8% 3.2%
Action 5 13 0.0% 0.0% 92.3% 7.7%
Action 6 5 0.0% 0.0% 60.0% 40.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.4% 1 of 248 office actions
All years 0.3% 1 of 369 office actions
Change +0.1 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%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
1.8%

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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