Examiner Raven Collins

Grant ratio: 56.9% (68th percentile in Art Unit 3788 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.77. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 56.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.77
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86913
Primary art unit
3788
Work group
3780
Technology center
3700
Applications
1,008
Granted applications
574
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1672
Supervisor
Anthony Stashick
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4561

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 14 47.7% 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 2.73 2,755 office actions across 1,008 applications
Applications with office actions 98.9% 997 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 11 1.1%
1 OA 323 32.0%
2 OAs 267 26.5%
3 OAs 157 15.6%
4 OAs 97 9.6%
5+ OAs 153 15.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 0.0% 2009 2010: 33.3% 2010 2011: 51.6% 2011 2012: 59.3% 2012 2013: 56.7% 2013 2014: 52.2% 2014 2015: 59.5% 2015 2016: 67.1% 2016 2017: 52.8% 2017 2018: 63.8% 2018 2019: 62.0% 2019 2020: 77.8% 2020 2021: 71.4% 2021 2022: 66.0% 2022 2023: 78.0% 2023 2024: 58.2% 2024 2025: 44.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2009600.0%
2010361233.3%
2011643351.6%
2012593559.3%
2013603456.7%
2014462452.2%
2015744459.5%
2016825567.1%
2017532852.8%
2018694463.8%
2019714462.0%
2020544277.8%
2021634571.4%
2022473166.0%
2023594678.0%
2024553258.2%
2025562544.6%
20265400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 997 0.4% 9.1% 80.9% 3.1%
Action 2 674 0.0% 4.3% 85.9% 3.1%
Action 3 407 0.0% 3.7% 87.7% 3.4%
Action 4 250 0.0% 4.0% 88.8% 3.6%
Action 5 153 0.0% 2.6% 92.8% 2.6%
Action 6 98 0.0% 3.1% 91.8% 3.1%
Action 7 57 0.0% 1.8% 91.2% 5.3%
Action 8 32 0.0% 0.0% 93.8% 6.3%
Action 9 22 0.0% 4.5% 95.5% 0.0%
Action 10 20 0.0% 0.0% 95.0% 5.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 419 office actions
All years 0.1% 4 of 2,755 office actions
Change -0.1 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%
0.7%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
0.5%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
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: 16. Merits outcomes: 7 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
43.8% 7/16 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
56.3% 9/16 decisions
Median appeal duration
27.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 20, 2021 15/649,812 Affirmed §103 · §120
Dec. 14, 2020 15/759,585 Reversed §103
Aug. 8, 2019 14/154,444 Affirmed §103
Feb. 25, 2019 15/123,265 Reversed §103
Dec. 20, 2017 14/010,094 Reversed §103
Apr. 19, 2017 12/714,752 Affirmed §103
May. 25, 2016 11/151,774 Affirmed §103
Mar. 25, 2016 12/570,730 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
May. 29, 2015 12/766,846 Affirmed in part N/A
Nov. 25, 2014 12/324,078 Affirmed in part N/A
Nov. 24, 2014 11/442,769 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 31, 2014 12/655,518 Affirmed 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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