Examiner Lindsay Regan Lancaster

Grant ratio: 33.6% (38th percentile in Art Unit 3794 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: August 2026
Grant ratio 33.6%
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
95418
Primary art unit
3794
Work group
3790
Technology center
3700
Applications
152
Granted applications
51
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7259

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 48 39.8% 2.24
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 2.95 449 office actions across 152 applications
Applications with office actions 96.1% 146 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 6 3.9%
1 OA 35 23.0%
2 OAs 37 24.3%
3 OAs 29 19.1%
4 OAs 17 11.2%
5+ OAs 28 18.4%

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: 75.0% 2021 2022: 56.0% 2022 2023: 68.8% 2023 2024: 55.6% 2024 2025: 18.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2020100.0%
2021161275.0%
2022251456.0%
2023161168.8%
2024181055.6%
202522418.2%
20265400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 146 0.0% 3.4% 91.8% 0.0%
Action 2 111 0.9% 2.7% 91.9% 0.0%
Action 3 74 2.7% 2.7% 91.9% 1.4%
Action 4 45 4.4% 2.2% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 5 28 3.6% 0.0% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 6 21 0.0% 0.0% 95.2% 0.0%
Action 7 11 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 0.0%
Action 8 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.9% 5 of 264 office actions
All years 1.3% 6 of 449 office actions
Change +0.6 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%
1.6%
2024: AI examples
3.6%
2025: August memo
2.2%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 27, 2025 17/235,119 Affirmed §103
Apr. 23, 2025 16/255,579 Reversed §103
Nov. 27, 2024 16/103,793 Affirmed §102

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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