Examiner Bratislav Stankovic

Grant ratio: 62.7% (48th percentile in Art Unit 1663 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.80. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: September 2026
Grant ratio 62.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.80
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91767
Primary art unit
1663
Work group
1660
Technology center
1600
Applications
577
Granted applications
362
Examiner phone
(571) 270-0305
Supervisor
Amjad Abraham
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-7058

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 52.2% 1.49
Group 57 59.1% 1.46
Tech Center 1,380 37.5% 2.02
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.90 1,094 office actions across 577 applications
Applications with office actions 99.3% 573 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 0.7%
1 OA 305 52.9%
2 OAs 147 25.5%
3 OAs 48 8.3%
4 OAs 45 7.8%
5+ OAs 28 4.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 50.0% 2014 2015: 40.4% 2015 2016: 46.7% 2016 2017: 58.5% 2017 2018: 64.9% 2018 2019: 77.3% 2019 2020: 87.2% 2020 2021: 92.2% 2021 2024: 85.4% 2024 2025: 43.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20142150.0%
2015522140.4%
2016602846.7%
2017824858.5%
2018744864.9%
2019886877.3%
2020474187.2%
2021514792.2%
2024413585.4%
2025572543.9%
20262300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 573 1.4% 17.3% 52.5% 25.3%
Action 2 268 1.9% 17.2% 56.3% 17.9%
Action 3 121 0.8% 22.3% 54.5% 20.7%
Action 4 73 1.4% 21.9% 54.8% 21.9%
Action 5 28 7.1% 21.4% 42.9% 28.6%
Action 6 16 0.0% 18.8% 62.5% 18.8%
Action 7 7 0.0% 14.3% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 8 6 0.0% 16.7% 33.3% 50.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 152 office actions
All years 1.6% 17 of 1,094 office actions
Change -1.6 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-02–2026-10-02. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2014: Alice
0.0%
0.9%
0.6%
2.1%
1.8%
2019: PEG
1.3%
5.8%
1.6%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
71.4% 5/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
71.4% 5/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
10.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 9, 2022 15/312,409 Affirmed §103
Dec. 18, 2020 15/618,792 Reversed §103
Nov. 23, 2020 14/917,045 Reversed §112
Jul. 29, 2020 15/100,780 Reversed §103
Jul. 8, 2019 14/258,908 Affirmed §103
May. 8, 2019 14/327,905 Reversed §103
Mar. 15, 2019 14/212,469 Reversed 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 Oct. 9, 2026.

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