Examiner Jonathan Crepeau

Grant ratio: 67.7% (73rd percentile in Art Unit 1725 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.98. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 67.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.98
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
75637
Primary art unit
1725
Work group
1720
Technology center
1700
Applications
964
Granted applications
653
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1299

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 43.5% 1.88
Group 264 46.2% 2.20
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.01 1,939 office actions across 964 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 961 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.3%
1 OA 489 50.7%
2 OAs 252 26.1%
3 OAs 93 9.6%
4 OAs 62 6.4%
5+ OAs 65 6.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 61.0% 2008 2009: 44.4% 2009 2010: 69.8% 2010 2011: 66.2% 2011 2012: 63.6% 2012 2013: 63.0% 2013 2014: 74.5% 2014 2015: 71.4% 2015 2016: 63.8% 2016 2017: 81.1% 2017 2018: 76.9% 2018 2019: 74.5% 2019 2020: 80.7% 2020 2021: 88.2% 2021 2022: 84.0% 2022 2023: 89.7% 2023 2024: 86.2% 2024 2025: 39.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008412561.0%
2009452044.4%
2010433069.8%
2011714766.2%
2012553563.6%
2013462963.0%
2014554174.5%
2015423071.4%
2016583763.8%
2017534381.1%
2018524076.9%
2019513874.5%
2020574680.7%
2021514588.2%
2022504284.0%
2023393589.7%
2024585086.2%
2025512039.2%
20264600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 961 0.3% 8.4% 63.2% 10.9%
Action 2 472 1.1% 10.2% 73.9% 10.6%
Action 3 220 0.0% 5.9% 82.3% 9.1%
Action 4 127 0.0% 7.9% 85.8% 6.3%
Action 5 65 0.0% 4.6% 84.6% 10.8%
Action 6 37 0.0% 8.1% 89.2% 2.7%
Action 7 20 0.0% 5.0% 85.0% 10.0%
Action 8 14 0.0% 0.0% 92.9% 7.1%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 5 0.0% 0.0% 80.0% 20.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.6% 4 of 251 office actions
All years 0.4% 8 of 1,939 office actions
Change +1.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.8%
0.0%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
3.2%
2025: August memo
1.3%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 12. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 6 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 6/12 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
58.3% 7/12 decisions
Median appeal duration
19.3 months
New grounds of rejection
3
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 3, 2022 15/688,215 Reversed New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Jan. 31, 2022 15/688,169 Reversed N/A
Oct. 2, 2019 13/551,115 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103
Feb. 25, 2019 14/558,234 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §102
Dec. 21, 2015 12/653,731 Affirmed §103 · §112
Dec. 26, 2013 12/262,811 Reversed N/A
Mar. 30, 2012 11/238,322 Reversed §103
Mar. 27, 2012 10/469,119 Affirmed §103 · §112
Feb. 15, 2012 10/295,518 Reversed N/A
Jan. 5, 2012 10/758,843 Affirmed §103
Feb. 22, 2011 10/814,019 Reversed N/A
Mar. 19, 2010 10/394,822 Affirmed §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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