Examiner Jason Y Chong

Grant ratio: 63.3% (36th percentile in Art Unit 1772 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.69. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 63.3%
Average office actions / grant 1.69
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
90355
Primary art unit
1772
Work group
1770
Technology center
1700
Applications
425
Granted applications
269
Examiner phone
(571) 431-0694
Supervisor
In Suk Bullock
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-5954

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 51.8% 1.77
Group 178 50.9% 1.94
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.75 743 office actions across 425 applications
Applications with office actions 97.9% 416 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 9 2.1%
1 OA 227 53.4%
2 OAs 109 25.6%
3 OAs 40 9.4%
4 OAs 31 7.3%
5+ OAs 9 2.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 25.0% 2015 2016: 55.6% 2016 2017: 61.9% 2017 2018: 69.4% 2018 2019: 77.4% 2019 2020: 73.9% 2020 2021: 74.3% 2021 2022: 82.1% 2022 2023: 87.5% 2023 2024: 88.2% 2024 2025: 36.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20154125.0%
2016362055.6%
2017422661.9%
2018362569.4%
2019312477.4%
2020463473.9%
2021352674.3%
2022393282.1%
2023403587.5%
2024343088.2%
2025441636.4%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 416 0.7% 1.4% 62.3% 20.2%
Action 2 189 0.0% 1.6% 82.5% 6.3%
Action 3 80 0.0% 0.0% 82.5% 7.5%
Action 4 40 0.0% 0.0% 85.0% 10.0%
Action 5 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.5% 1 of 212 office actions
All years 0.4% 3 of 743 office actions
Change +0.1 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%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
2.4%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 22, 2020 15/689,452 Affirmed in part §103
May. 1, 2020 14/929,744 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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