Examiner Megan Anderson

Grant ratio: 69.0% (72nd percentile in Art Unit 3784 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.41. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 69.0%
Average office actions / grant 1.41
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
90471
Primary art unit
3784
Work group
3780
Technology center
3700
Applications
726
Granted applications
501
Examiner phone
(313) 446-6531
Supervisor
Loan Jimenez
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4966

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 63.4% 1.42
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 1.43 1,039 office actions across 726 applications
Applications with office actions 98.2% 713 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 13 1.8%
1 OA 501 69.0%
2 OAs 140 19.3%
3 OAs 49 6.7%
4 OAs 14 1.9%
5+ OAs 9 1.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 55.6% 2013 2014: 54.8% 2014 2015: 64.3% 2015 2016: 77.2% 2016 2017: 77.3% 2017 2018: 72.2% 2018 2019: 75.7% 2019 2020: 85.1% 2020 2021: 72.9% 2021 2022: 76.9% 2022 2023: 84.4% 2023 2024: 81.6% 2024 2025: 44.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20139555.6%
2014623454.8%
2015422764.3%
2016796177.2%
2017665177.3%
2018725272.2%
2019745675.7%
2020675785.1%
2021594372.9%
2022393076.9%
2023453884.4%
2024383181.6%
2025361644.4%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 713 1.0% 12.2% 48.0% 33.0%
Action 2 212 0.5% 9.4% 68.4% 17.5%
Action 3 72 1.4% 4.2% 66.7% 22.2%
Action 4 23 0.0% 4.3% 78.3% 13.0%
Action 5 9 0.0% 0.0% 88.9% 11.1%
Action 6 6 0.0% 0.0% 83.3% 16.7%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.9% 3 of 161 office actions
All years 0.9% 9 of 1,039 office actions
Change +1.0 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2019: PEG
1.0%
2.3%
0.0%
2.1%
2.0%
2024: AI examples
2.0%
2025: August memo
1.9%
2.2%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
19.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 17, 2019 14/152,934 Reversed N/A
Sep. 18, 2017 13/801,672 Affirmed §103 · §112

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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