Examiner Jesse P Frumkin

Grant ratio: 57.2% (28th percentile in Art Unit 2156 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.10. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 57.2%
Average office actions / grant 3.10
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89901
Primary art unit
2156
Work group
2150
Technology center
1600
Applications
285
Granted applications
163
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1849
Supervisor
Olivia Wise
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2249

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 22 58.6% 2.62
Group 119 59.3% 2.64
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.81 801 office actions across 285 applications
Applications with office actions 95.8% 273 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 12 4.2%
1 OA 84 29.5%
2 OAs 62 21.8%
3 OAs 44 15.4%
4 OAs 26 9.1%
5+ OAs 57 20.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 28.6% 2013 2014: 40.0% 2014 2015: 25.0% 2015 2016: 66.7% 2016 2017: 68.8% 2017 2018: 73.7% 2018 2019: 82.4% 2019 2020: 80.6% 2020 2021: 81.8% 2021 2022: 81.0% 2022 2023: 82.4% 2023 2024: 83.3% 2024 2025: 11.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20137228.6%
201415640.0%
20158225.0%
201612866.7%
2017161168.8%
2018191473.7%
2019342882.4%
2020312580.6%
2021332781.8%
2022211781.0%
2023171482.4%
20246583.3%
202536411.1%
20263000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 273 6.6% 37.7% 34.8% 1.1%
Action 2 189 8.5% 29.1% 45.5% 0.0%
Action 3 127 5.5% 22.8% 55.1% 1.6%
Action 4 83 1.2% 24.1% 59.0% 0.0%
Action 5 57 5.3% 22.8% 57.9% 0.0%
Action 6 36 8.3% 22.2% 52.8% 0.0%
Action 7 17 11.8% 11.8% 52.9% 0.0%
Action 8 11 0.0% 9.1% 63.6% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 4.5% 7 of 157 office actions
All years 6.2% 50 of 801 office actions
Change -1.8 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
23.1%
30.0%
2019: PEG
2.9%
2.0%
12.1%
2.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
2.0%
2025: August memo
6.1%
5.6%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
100.0% 5/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 5/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 22, 2026 18/740,784 Reversed §102 · §103
Aug. 5, 2024 16/303,274 Reversed §103
Feb. 27, 2023 15/868,613 Reversed §103
Feb. 1, 2017 13/560,976 Reversed §103
Feb. 1, 2017 13/549,416 Reversed §103 · §112

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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