Examiner Anna Roberts

Grant ratio: 29.8% (43rd percentile in Art Unit 3791 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.90. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 29.8%
Average office actions / grant 2.90
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
95793
Primary art unit
3791
Work group
3790
Technology center
3700
Applications
235
Granted applications
70
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7912
Supervisor
Alexander Valvis
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4233

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 104 34.5% 2.08
Group 338 38.6% 2.26
Tech Center 2,685 47.8% 2.01
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.35 552 office actions across 235 applications
Applications with office actions 93.2% 219 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 16 6.8%
1 OA 81 34.5%
2 OAs 67 28.5%
3 OAs 25 10.6%
4 OAs 20 8.5%
5+ OAs 26 11.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 0.0% 2020 2021: 50.0% 2021 2022: 59.4% 2022 2023: 62.5% 2023 2024: 50.0% 2024 2025: 24.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2020200.0%
202114750.0%
2022321959.4%
2023241562.5%
2024381950.0%
2025411024.4%
20268400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 219 1.8% 12.8% 70.3% 9.1%
Action 2 138 7.2% 31.2% 52.2% 5.1%
Action 3 71 8.5% 15.5% 64.8% 2.8%
Action 4 46 13.0% 8.7% 67.4% 8.7%
Action 5 26 7.7% 19.2% 57.7% 11.5%
Action 6 21 9.5% 14.3% 66.7% 4.8%
Action 7 11 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 8 0.0% 12.5% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 9 5 0.0% 20.0% 80.0% 0.0%
Action 10 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 4.0% 13 of 323 office actions
All years 5.4% 30 of 552 office actions
Change -1.4 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
9.1%
9.5%
5.2%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
4.0%
6.4%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
8.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 30, 2026 18/782,618 Affirmed §101
Dec. 26, 2023 16/224,020 Affirmed §101

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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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