Examiner Erinne R Dabkowski

Grant ratio: 47.8% (46th percentile in Art Unit 1654 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.16. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 47.8%
Average office actions / grant 2.16
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
89609
Primary art unit
1654
Work group
1650
Technology center
1600
Applications
789
Granted applications
377
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1829
Supervisor
Lianko Garyu
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-7367

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 47.0% 1.83
Group 208 40.4% 2.00
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.48 1,955 office actions across 789 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 786 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.4%
1 OA 264 33.5%
2 OAs 267 33.8%
3 OAs 82 10.4%
4 OAs 84 10.6%
5+ OAs 89 11.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 100.0% 2012 2013: 60.6% 2013 2014: 64.8% 2014 2015: 64.6% 2015 2016: 44.0% 2016 2017: 36.5% 2017 2018: 58.6% 2018 2019: 60.3% 2019 2020: 70.3% 2020 2021: 67.3% 2021 2022: 43.8% 2022 2023: 51.8% 2023 2024: 53.8% 2024 2025: 14.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201211100.0%
2013332060.6%
2014543564.8%
2015654264.6%
2016502244.0%
2017632336.5%
2018583458.6%
2019583560.3%
2020644570.3%
2021493367.3%
2022482143.8%
2023562951.8%
2024522853.8%
202562914.5%
20267600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 786 1.8% 15.9% 36.8% 7.0%
Action 2 522 4.4% 7.9% 41.8% 27.6%
Action 3 255 3.5% 7.1% 48.6% 20.0%
Action 4 173 2.3% 4.6% 58.4% 17.9%
Action 5 89 1.1% 6.7% 47.2% 23.6%
Action 6 57 1.8% 1.8% 54.4% 15.8%
Action 7 29 6.9% 0.0% 51.7% 10.3%
Action 8 19 10.5% 5.3% 47.4% 10.5%
Action 9 12 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 16.7%
Action 10 7 0.0% 0.0% 57.1% 14.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.3% 10 of 433 office actions
All years 2.9% 56 of 1,955 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%
0.0%
6.3%
0.8%
2014: Alice
8.4%
4.5%
4.0%
1.2%
3.1%
2019: PEG
2.2%
2.2%
1.6%
2.2%
0.7%
2024: AI examples
2.1%
2025: August memo
2.9%
3.1%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
57.1% 4/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
57.1% 4/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 21, 2025 15/887,083 Reversed §103
Nov. 4, 2024 17/071,624 Affirmed §103
May. 22, 2023 15/136,383 Affirmed §103
May. 16, 2022 16/796,940 Reversed §103
Nov. 24, 2021 15/236,807 Reversed §103
Mar. 1, 2019 13/508,163 Reversed §103
Jan. 28, 2019 14/347,512 Affirmed N/A

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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