Examiner Edu E. Enin-Okut

Grant ratio: 16.9% (17th percentile in Art Unit 1727 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.95. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 16.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.95
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
76164
Primary art unit
1727
Work group
1720
Technology center
1700
Applications
118
Granted applications
20
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3075
Supervisor
Srilakshmi Kumar
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7769

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 50.1% 2.25
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 2.75 324 office actions across 118 applications
Applications with office actions 96.6% 114 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 3.4%
1 OA 30 25.4%
2 OAs 37 31.4%
3 OAs 10 8.5%
4 OAs 16 13.6%
5+ OAs 21 17.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 50.0% 2009 2011: 0.0% 2011 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 40.0% 2013 2014: 14.3% 2014 2015: 6.7% 2015 2016: 15.4% 2016 2017: 0.0% 2017 2019: 100.0% 2019 2020: 20.0% 2020 2021: 100.0% 2021 2023: 0.0% 2023 2025: 10.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20092150.0%
2011600.0%
2012500.0%
201315640.0%
201428414.3%
20151516.7%
201613215.4%
2017300.0%
201933100.0%
20205120.0%
202111100.0%
2023100.0%
202510110.0%
20261100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 114 0.0% 8.8% 79.8% 1.8%
Action 2 84 0.0% 10.7% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 3 47 0.0% 4.3% 87.2% 0.0%
Action 4 37 0.0% 5.4% 91.9% 2.7%
Action 5 21 0.0% 9.5% 90.5% 0.0%
Action 6 10 0.0% 10.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 7 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%
Action 9 2 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 33 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 324 office actions
Change 0.0 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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: 11. Merits outcomes: 10 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
9.1% 1/11 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
9.1% 1/11 decisions
Median appeal duration
22.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 30, 2017 12/533,817 Affirmed §103
Apr. 27, 2017 13/141,436 Affirmed §103
Mar. 24, 2016 12/742,583 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §120
Mar. 23, 2016 12/750,314 Affirmed §103
Jan. 4, 2016 11/658,195 Affirmed §103 · §112
Dec. 8, 2015 12/272,829 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 19, 2015 11/224,879 Affirmed N/A
Sep. 10, 2015 11/939,850 Affirmed N/A
Jun. 12, 2015 12/517,404 Affirmed N/A
Jan. 31, 2012 11/242,737 Reversed N/A
Jan. 17, 2012 11/206,479 Affirmed §103

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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