Examiner Gregory Winter

Grant ratio: 49.0% (17th percentile in Art Unit 3764 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.93. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: May 2018
Grant ratio 49.0%
Average office actions / grant 1.93
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89513
Primary art unit
3764
Work group
3760
Technology center
3700
Applications
312
Granted applications
153

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 16 63.9% 1.52
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 1.79 593 office actions across 331 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 331 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 170 51.4%
2 OAs 94 28.4%
3 OAs 42 12.7%
4 OAs 19 5.7%
5+ OAs 6 1.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 30.6% 2013 2014: 41.7% 2014 2015: 47.3% 2015 2016: 54.9% 2016 2017: 59.1% 2017 2018: 71.4% 2018

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2012300.0%
2013491530.6%
2014602541.7%
2015552647.3%
2016512854.9%
2017663959.1%
2018282071.4%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 331 0.9% 5.7% 62.5% 15.7%
Action 2 161 0.0% 4.3% 65.8% 23.0%
Action 3 67 0.0% 6.0% 70.1% 19.4%
Action 4 25 0.0% 0.0% 76.0% 16.0%
Action 5 6 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%
Action 6 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.5% 3 of 593 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%
1.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 25, 2018 14/154,957 Reversed §103
Sep. 20, 2018 14/219,464 Affirmed in part §102 · §103 · §112
Aug. 31, 2017 13/200,813 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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