Examiner Miguel A Diaz

Grant ratio: 69.2% (73rd percentile in Art Unit 3763 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.78. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 69.2%
Average office actions / grant 1.78
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
93300
Primary art unit
3763
Work group
3760
Technology center
3700
Applications
520
Granted applications
360
Examiner phone
(313) 446-6587
Supervisor
Jianying C. Atkisson
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-7740

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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 1.76 917 office actions across 520 applications
Applications with office actions 97.1% 505 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 15 2.9%
1 OA 294 56.5%
2 OAs 112 21.5%
3 OAs 38 7.3%
4 OAs 37 7.1%
5+ OAs 24 4.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2016: 50.0% 2016 2017: 25.0% 2017 2018: 43.5% 2018 2019: 69.8% 2019 2020: 70.7% 2020 2021: 95.6% 2021 2022: 88.7% 2022 2023: 95.4% 2023 2024: 88.6% 2024 2025: 57.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20162150.0%
201728725.0%
2018462043.5%
2019433069.8%
2020412970.7%
2021686595.6%
2022534788.7%
2023656295.4%
2024706288.6%
2025643757.8%
20264000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 505 0.2% 11.5% 52.7% 33.7%
Action 2 211 0.0% 6.6% 79.6% 12.3%
Action 3 99 0.0% 4.0% 89.9% 6.1%
Action 4 61 0.0% 4.9% 86.9% 8.2%
Action 5 24 0.0% 4.2% 95.8% 0.0%
Action 6 11 0.0% 9.1% 72.7% 18.2%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 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 0.0% 0 of 231 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 917 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%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
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

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
75.0% 3/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
75.0% 3/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
7.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 24, 2021 15/310,926 Reversed §103 · §112
Jul. 22, 2020 15/942,072 Reversed §103
Feb. 6, 2020 14/675,798 Reversed §101 · §103 · §112
Dec. 13, 2019 14/680,282 Affirmed §103

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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