Examiner Jessee Roe

Grant ratio: 70.5% (73rd percentile in Art Unit 1733 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.04. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 70.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.04
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
82933
Primary art unit
1733
Work group
1730
Technology center
1700
Applications
1,355
Granted applications
955
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5938
Supervisor
Curt Mayes
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1234

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 53.6% 2.02
Group 191 48.8% 1.97
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.14 2,894 office actions across 1,355 applications
Applications with office actions 99.9% 1,354 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.1%
1 OA 591 43.6%
2 OAs 386 28.5%
3 OAs 182 13.4%
4 OAs 114 8.4%
5+ OAs 81 6.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 58.5% 2008 2009: 51.4% 2009 2010: 53.8% 2010 2011: 76.2% 2011 2012: 69.6% 2012 2013: 69.2% 2013 2014: 71.4% 2014 2015: 67.2% 2015 2016: 70.4% 2016 2017: 88.6% 2017 2018: 89.5% 2018 2019: 85.2% 2019 2020: 85.4% 2020 2021: 84.7% 2021 2022: 85.0% 2022 2023: 87.3% 2023 2024: 87.9% 2024 2025: 54.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008533158.5%
2009703651.4%
2010653553.8%
2011634876.2%
2012926469.6%
2013785469.2%
2014775571.4%
2015644367.2%
2016715070.4%
2017706288.6%
2018766889.5%
2019887585.2%
2020827085.4%
2021726184.7%
2022605185.0%
2023716287.3%
2024585187.9%
2025713954.9%
20267400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,354 0.7% 3.1% 63.2% 17.8%
Action 2 763 0.4% 1.4% 74.0% 11.7%
Action 3 377 0.0% 0.8% 77.2% 11.1%
Action 4 195 0.0% 0.0% 77.4% 13.3%
Action 5 81 0.0% 0.0% 75.3% 11.1%
Action 6 59 0.0% 0.0% 76.3% 10.2%
Action 7 32 0.0% 0.0% 84.4% 9.4%
Action 8 17 0.0% 0.0% 76.5% 23.5%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%
Action 10 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 376 office actions
All years 0.4% 12 of 2,894 office actions
Change -0.4 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%
0.5%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
1.5%
0.0%
0.9%
0.8%
2019: PEG
0.7%
0.7%
1.7%
0.9%
1.8%
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: 48. Merits outcomes: 25 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 20 reversed.

Full reversal rate
41.7% 20/48 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
47.9% 23/48 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.9 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 12, 2026 17/737,435 Affirmed §103
Jan. 23, 2025 17/327,189 Affirmed §102 · §103
Aug. 7, 2023 16/818,127 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
May. 28, 2019 13/871,405 Affirmed §103
Dec. 17, 2018 14/482,811 Reversed §103
Nov. 30, 2018 13/391,454 Affirmed §103 · §112
Feb. 21, 2018 14/768,845 Affirmed §103
Dec. 5, 2017 13/630,566 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Sep. 29, 2017 13/265,566 Reversed §103
Jun. 6, 2017 12/311,873 Affirmed §103
May. 3, 2017 12/161,529 Reversed §103
Apr. 12, 2017 13/298,879 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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