Examiner Jennifer Gill

Grant ratio: 25.3% (25th percentile in Art Unit 3772 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.82. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 25.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.82
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
88134
Primary art unit
3772
Work group
3770
Technology center
3700
Applications
667
Granted applications
169
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1797

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 49 36.1% 2.02
Group 269 49.0% 2.08
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.40 1,599 office actions across 667 applications
Applications with office actions 98.4% 656 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 11 1.6%
1 OA 252 37.8%
2 OAs 181 27.1%
3 OAs 80 12.0%
4 OAs 72 10.8%
5+ OAs 71 10.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 34.6% 2011 2012: 17.9% 2012 2013: 21.4% 2013 2014: 29.3% 2014 2015: 26.5% 2015 2016: 36.4% 2016 2017: 28.3% 2017 2018: 30.0% 2018 2019: 21.6% 2019 2020: 42.9% 2020 2021: 29.7% 2021 2022: 29.8% 2022 2023: 21.7% 2023 2024: 28.1% 2024 2025: 7.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201126934.6%
201239717.9%
201342921.4%
2014581729.3%
2015491326.5%
2016441636.4%
2017461328.3%
2018401230.0%
201937821.6%
2020421842.9%
2021371129.7%
2022471429.8%
2023461021.7%
202432928.1%
20254137.3%
20264100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 656 0.0% 20.3% 77.7% 1.5%
Action 2 404 0.2% 15.1% 79.7% 3.2%
Action 3 223 0.0% 9.4% 87.4% 2.7%
Action 4 143 0.7% 8.4% 84.6% 4.9%
Action 5 71 0.0% 7.0% 84.5% 5.6%
Action 6 40 0.0% 7.5% 92.5% 0.0%
Action 7 23 0.0% 8.7% 91.3% 4.3%
Action 8 14 0.0% 7.1% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 9 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 279 office actions
All years 0.1% 2 of 1,599 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%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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: 14. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
35.7% 5/14 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
42.9% 6/14 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 27, 2026 16/998,790 Reversed §103 · §112
Sep. 19, 2025 16/868,920 Reversed §102 · §103
Jul. 1, 2025 17/406,856 Affirmed §103 · §112
Mar. 10, 2025 15/732,037 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Aug. 22, 2022 15/746,187 Affirmed §112
Apr. 30, 2020 14/128,097 Reversed §103
Apr. 14, 2020 15/099,315 Reversed §102 · §103
Aug. 22, 2019 14/654,526 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Feb. 28, 2019 12/699,199 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Aug. 6, 2018 14/461,798 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jul. 12, 2018 14/016,552 Affirmed §103 · §112
May. 17, 2018 14/335,166 Reversed §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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