Examiner Noah Kamen

Grant ratio: 81.3% (96th percentile in Art Unit 3783 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.30. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: September 2014
Grant ratio 81.3%
Average office actions / grant 1.30
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
60477
Primary art unit
3783
Work group
3780
Technology center
3700
Applications
536
Granted applications
436

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 81 45.9% 1.98
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 1.28 687 office actions across 536 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 536 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 412 76.9%
2 OAs 100 18.7%
3 OAs 22 4.1%
4 OAs 1 0.2%
5+ OAs 1 0.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2007: 0.0% 2007 2008: 81.0% 2008 2009: 84.8% 2009 2010: 74.1% 2010 2011: 81.0% 2011 2012: 82.9% 2012 2013: 85.2% 2013 2014: 82.9% 2014

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2007100.0%
2008796481.0%
2009998484.8%
2010816074.1%
20111058581.0%
2012766382.9%
2013544685.2%
2014413482.9%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 536 0.9% 27.4% 42.0% 17.4%
Action 2 124 0.8% 25.8% 54.0% 9.7%
Action 3 24 0.0% 8.3% 66.7% 20.8%
Action 4 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.9% 6 of 687 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%
1.7%
0.0%
0.7%
2.1%
0.0%
2014: Alice
2.2%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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