Examiner Shannel N Wright

Grant ratio: 48.2% (63rd percentile in Art Unit 3772 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.48. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 48.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.48
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
93161
Primary art unit
3772
Work group
3770
Technology center
3700
Applications
394
Granted applications
190
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9671
Supervisor
Eric Rosen
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-7855

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 49 35.9% 2.02
Group 270 48.5% 2.08
Tech Center 2,685 47.8% 2.01
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.43 957 office actions across 394 applications
Applications with office actions 97.0% 382 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 12 3.0%
1 OA 152 38.6%
2 OAs 94 23.9%
3 OAs 52 13.2%
4 OAs 40 10.2%
5+ OAs 44 11.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2016: 33.3% 2016 2017: 60.5% 2017 2018: 69.6% 2018 2019: 51.4% 2019 2020: 54.5% 2020 2021: 73.2% 2021 2022: 55.9% 2022 2023: 66.7% 2023 2024: 63.6% 2024 2025: 12.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201612433.3%
2017382360.5%
2018463269.6%
2019351851.4%
2020442454.5%
2021413073.2%
2022341955.9%
2023332266.7%
2024221463.6%
202531412.9%
20265800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 382 0.3% 7.3% 75.1% 11.5%
Action 2 230 0.0% 5.7% 82.6% 9.1%
Action 3 136 1.5% 4.4% 86.0% 5.9%
Action 4 84 2.4% 2.4% 90.5% 3.6%
Action 5 44 0.0% 4.5% 88.6% 6.8%
Action 6 28 0.0% 0.0% 96.4% 0.0%
Action 7 14 7.1% 0.0% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 8 13 7.7% 0.0% 76.9% 7.7%
Action 9 10 10.0% 0.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 10 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.8% 2 of 238 office actions
All years 0.8% 8 of 957 office actions
Change +0.0 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.3%
5.8%
2024: AI examples
1.6%
2025: August memo
1.1%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 16, 2023 16/157,288 Affirmed §103
Jun. 18, 2020 14/979,224 Affirmed §103
Dec. 19, 2019 14/721,310 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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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