Examiner Johnathan Maynard

Grant ratio: 28.1% (2nd percentile in Art Unit 3793 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.73. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 28.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.73
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
93914
Primary art unit
3793
Work group
3790
Technology center
3700
Applications
228
Granted applications
64
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7977
Supervisor
Keith Raymond
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1790

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 38 47.4% 2.26
Group 334 38.9% 2.25
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.84 647 office actions across 228 applications
Applications with office actions 96.5% 220 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 8 3.5%
1 OA 57 25.0%
2 OAs 56 24.6%
3 OAs 33 14.5%
4 OAs 39 17.1%
5+ OAs 35 15.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2018: 25.0% 2018 2019: 38.1% 2019 2020: 34.5% 2020 2021: 31.8% 2021 2022: 24.0% 2022 2023: 35.3% 2023 2024: 46.2% 2024 2025: 24.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20184125.0%
201921838.1%
2020291034.5%
202122731.8%
202225624.0%
2023341235.3%
2024261246.2%
202533824.2%
20263400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 220 1.8% 4.1% 85.0% 2.3%
Action 2 163 1.2% 1.2% 90.8% 1.2%
Action 3 107 0.0% 1.9% 90.7% 0.9%
Action 4 74 0.0% 0.0% 93.2% 2.7%
Action 5 35 0.0% 2.9% 88.6% 0.0%
Action 6 22 0.0% 0.0% 86.4% 0.0%
Action 7 12 0.0% 0.0% 91.7% 0.0%
Action 8 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.8% 6 of 217 office actions
All years 0.9% 6 of 647 office actions
Change +1.8 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%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
6.2%
2.4%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 9. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
55.6% 5/9 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 6/9 decisions
Median appeal duration
8.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 23, 2026 18/483,757 Affirmed §103
Nov. 25, 2025 18/154,562 Affirmed §103
Sep. 22, 2025 16/711,120 Affirmed in part N/A
Aug. 25, 2025 16/397,150 Reversed §103
Oct. 12, 2022 15/303,002 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 28, 2021 15/124,742 Reversed §103
Sep. 20, 2021 15/100,652 Reversed §103
May. 18, 2021 15/287,318 Reversed §103
Apr. 27, 2021 15/518,512 Reversed §102 · §103

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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