Examiner Leah Stohr

Grant ratio: 74.8% (89th percentile in Art Unit 3763 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.77. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: February 2015
Grant ratio 74.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.77
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
86523
Primary art unit
3763
Work group
3760
Technology center
3700
Applications
250
Granted applications
187

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 99 54.0% 2.10
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 1.74 436 office actions across 250 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 250 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 119 47.6%
2 OAs 91 36.4%
3 OAs 26 10.4%
4 OAs 13 5.2%
5+ OAs 1 0.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 60.7% 2009 2010: 72.7% 2010 2011: 80.0% 2011 2012: 69.6% 2012 2013: 89.4% 2013 2014: 57.1% 2014 2015: 100.0% 2015

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2009281760.7%
2010443272.7%
2011604880.0%
2012563969.6%
2013474289.4%
201414857.1%
201511100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 250 0.0% 16.4% 69.2% 2.4%
Action 2 131 0.0% 19.8% 69.5% 2.3%
Action 3 40 2.5% 22.5% 57.5% 12.5%
Action 4 14 0.0% 21.4% 71.4% 7.1%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.2% 1 of 436 office actions
Change N/A 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%
0.0%
1.6%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 1. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 2, 2013 11/650,556 Affirmed §100 · §112 · §120

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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