Examiner Julianna Nicolaus

Grant ratio: 52.6% (66th percentile in Art Unit 3795 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.30. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: December 2023
Grant ratio 52.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.30
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
96178
Primary art unit
3795
Work group
3790
Technology center
3700
Applications
95
Granted applications
50

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 50.1% 2.02
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 2.25 272 office actions across 121 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 121 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 31 25.6%
2 OAs 53 43.8%
3 OAs 19 15.7%
4 OAs 13 10.7%
5+ OAs 5 4.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2021: 25.0% 2021 2022: 36.2% 2022 2023: 72.7% 2023

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20214125.0%
2022471736.2%
2023443272.7%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 121 0.8% 2.5% 93.4% 3.3%
Action 2 90 1.1% 1.1% 92.2% 5.6%
Action 3 37 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 18 0.0% 0.0% 88.9% 11.1%
Action 5 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.1% 1 of 32 office actions
All years 0.7% 2 of 272 office actions
Change +2.4 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%
0.8%
0.8%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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