Examiner Gabriella E Burnette

Grant ratio: 44.4% (48th percentile in Art Unit 3781 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.39. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 44.4%
Average office actions / grant 2.39
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
93609
Primary art unit
3781
Work group
3780
Technology center
3700
Applications
297
Granted applications
132
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9574
Supervisor
Rebecca Eisenberg
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5879

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 56 46.0% 2.06
Group 297 41.7% 1.90
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.35 698 office actions across 297 applications
Applications with office actions 98.3% 292 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 5 1.7%
1 OA 124 41.8%
2 OAs 86 29.0%
3 OAs 24 8.1%
4 OAs 23 7.7%
5+ OAs 35 11.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2017: 55.0% 2017 2018: 54.5% 2018 2019: 56.9% 2019 2020: 42.9% 2020 2021: 36.0% 2021 2022: 38.7% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 61.1% 2024 2025: 29.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2017201155.0%
2018331854.5%
2019512956.9%
202021942.9%
202125936.0%
2022311238.7%
2023281450.0%
2024362261.1%
202527829.6%
20262500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 292 0.7% 9.9% 82.2% 1.7%
Action 2 168 0.0% 5.4% 88.1% 0.0%
Action 3 82 0.0% 3.7% 89.0% 0.0%
Action 4 58 0.0% 3.4% 86.2% 1.7%
Action 5 35 0.0% 2.9% 85.7% 2.9%
Action 6 25 0.0% 0.0% 92.0% 4.0%
Action 7 17 0.0% 0.0% 94.1% 0.0%
Action 8 10 0.0% 0.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 9 6 0.0% 0.0% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 10 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 213 office actions
All years 0.3% 2 of 698 office actions
Change -0.3 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2.2%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
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: 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
14.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 20, 2026 17/626,361 Affirmed in part N/A
Aug. 29, 2024 15/084,902 Affirmed §103
May. 8, 2024 15/871,363 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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