Examiner Claire Rojohn Iii

Grant ratio: 59.0% (46th percentile in Art Unit 3763 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.19. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 59.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.19
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88460
Primary art unit
3763
Work group
3760
Technology center
3700
Applications
593
Granted applications
350
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5431
Supervisor
Len Tran
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1184

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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 2.19 1,300 office actions across 593 applications
Applications with office actions 98.8% 586 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 7 1.2%
1 OA 250 42.2%
2 OAs 164 27.7%
3 OAs 72 12.1%
4 OAs 47 7.9%
5+ OAs 53 8.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 0.0% 2011 2012: 11.8% 2012 2013: 13.8% 2013 2014: 38.1% 2014 2015: 36.7% 2015 2016: 79.2% 2016 2017: 78.8% 2017 2018: 67.4% 2018 2019: 82.6% 2019 2020: 70.8% 2020 2021: 81.6% 2021 2022: 68.6% 2022 2023: 86.4% 2023 2024: 70.3% 2024 2025: 55.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2011100.0%
201217211.8%
201329413.8%
2014421638.1%
2015491836.7%
2016534279.2%
2017524178.8%
2018463167.4%
2019463882.6%
2020483470.8%
2021383181.6%
2022352468.6%
2023221986.4%
2024372670.3%
2025432455.8%
20263500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 586 0.3% 18.6% 79.5% 1.0%
Action 2 336 0.0% 16.4% 81.5% 1.5%
Action 3 172 0.0% 16.9% 82.6% 0.6%
Action 4 100 0.0% 20.0% 80.0% 0.0%
Action 5 53 0.0% 20.8% 79.2% 0.0%
Action 6 27 0.0% 14.8% 85.2% 0.0%
Action 7 12 0.0% 16.7% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 8 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.5% 1 of 193 office actions
All years 0.2% 2 of 1,300 office actions
Change +0.4 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%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.7%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 10. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 4 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
30.0% 3/10 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
70.0% 7/10 decisions
Median appeal duration
21.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 1, 2022 14/678,320 Reversed N/A
Jun. 1, 2021 14/853,833 Affirmed §103
Feb. 1, 2021 15/906,431 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Jan. 23, 2020 14/722,569 Affirmed §103
Dec. 18, 2018 13/808,783 Reversed N/A
Jun. 25, 2018 14/002,608 Reversed §103
Mar. 22, 2018 12/732,320 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Jul. 7, 2016 12/005,784 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Feb. 9, 2016 12/049,642 Affirmed N/A
Jul. 31, 2015 12/546,414 Affirmed in part 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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