Examiner Jared D. Barsky

Grant ratio: 44.0% (52nd percentile in Art Unit 1628 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.50. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 44.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.50
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88994
Primary art unit
1628
Work group
1620
Technology center
1600
Applications
1,017
Granted applications
447
Examiner phone
(571) 272-2795
Supervisor
Winston Shen
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3157

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 39.2% 1.96
Group 252 46.0% 1.76
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.42 2,459 office actions across 1,017 applications
Applications with office actions 93.6% 952 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 65 6.4%
1 OA 319 31.4%
2 OAs 275 27.0%
3 OAs 136 13.4%
4 OAs 100 9.8%
5+ OAs 122 12.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 26.7% 2012 2013: 33.3% 2013 2014: 54.2% 2014 2015: 50.0% 2015 2016: 36.1% 2016 2017: 44.6% 2017 2018: 54.8% 2018 2019: 61.0% 2019 2020: 58.9% 2020 2021: 59.0% 2021 2022: 51.9% 2022 2023: 56.5% 2023 2024: 38.5% 2024 2025: 23.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201215426.7%
2013451533.3%
2014723954.2%
2015723650.0%
2016722636.1%
2017652944.6%
2018734054.8%
2019774761.0%
2020734358.9%
2021834959.0%
2022814251.9%
2023623556.5%
2024652538.5%
2025711723.9%
20269100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 952 0.9% 4.8% 43.4% 4.8%
Action 2 633 0.3% 4.1% 58.9% 4.9%
Action 3 358 0.0% 3.6% 67.0% 4.5%
Action 4 222 0.0% 3.2% 70.3% 2.3%
Action 5 122 0.0% 3.3% 60.7% 6.6%
Action 6 73 0.0% 0.0% 69.9% 6.8%
Action 7 47 0.0% 0.0% 68.1% 4.3%
Action 8 29 0.0% 6.9% 72.4% 0.0%
Action 9 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 5 0.0% 20.0% 80.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.7% 3 of 452 office actions
All years 0.4% 11 of 2,459 office actions
Change +0.2 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%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.6%
0.6%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
2.0%
0.5%
0.6%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.8%
2025: August memo
1.3%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 15. Merits outcomes: 11 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
20.0% 3/15 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
26.7% 4/15 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.9 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 6, 2026 17/649,133 Affirmed N/A
Jan. 14, 2026 16/048,004 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 26, 2023 16/656,656 Affirmed §103
Aug. 15, 2023 13/518,471 Affirmed §103
Jun. 13, 2023 14/775,465 Reversed N/A
Nov. 15, 2022 15/696,833 Affirmed §103
Mar. 31, 2020 15/279,866 Affirmed §103
Feb. 10, 2020 13/900,323 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103
Aug. 29, 2019 11/560,021 Reversed §103 · §112
Jul. 30, 2019 15/168,033 Affirmed §102 · §103
Feb. 27, 2019 14/113,017 Reversed §103
Jan. 8, 2019 14/051,043 Affirmed §103 · §120

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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