Examiner Michael Milo

Grant ratio: 33.0% (47th percentile in Art Unit 3786 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.94. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 33.0%
Average office actions / grant 3.94
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
95779
Primary art unit
3786
Work group
3780
Technology center
3700
Applications
203
Granted applications
67
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6476

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 28.2% 2.33
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 2.84 577 office actions across 203 applications
Applications with office actions 93.6% 190 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 13 6.4%
1 OA 48 23.6%
2 OAs 65 32.0%
3 OAs 16 7.9%
4 OAs 25 12.3%
5+ OAs 36 17.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 50.0% 2020 2021: 13.0% 2021 2022: 37.9% 2022 2023: 51.4% 2023 2024: 54.8% 2024 2025: 32.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20202150.0%
202123313.0%
2022291137.9%
2023351851.4%
2024422354.8%
2025341132.4%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 190 0.0% 2.1% 96.8% 0.0%
Action 2 142 0.0% 2.1% 96.5% 1.4%
Action 3 77 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 61 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 36 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 27 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 19 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 5.3%
Action 8 11 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 235 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 577 office actions
Change 0.0 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%
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: 5. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 9, 2025 16/701,507 Affirmed §103
Nov. 28, 2025 16/666,985 Affirmed §103
Sep. 3, 2025 15/528,798 Affirmed §103
Aug. 25, 2025 17/043,143 Reversed §103 · §112
May. 18, 2023 16/533,127 Reversed N/A

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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