Examiner Seokmin Jeon

Grant ratio: 31.3% (38th percentile in Art Unit 1786 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 4.97. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 31.3%
Average office actions / grant 4.97
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
95254
Primary art unit
1786
Work group
1780
Technology center
1700
Applications
195
Granted applications
61
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4599
Supervisor
Jennifer Boyd
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7783

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 38.3% 3.24
Group 208 37.3% 2.71
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.90 761 office actions across 195 applications
Applications with office actions 98.5% 192 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 1.5%
1 OA 24 12.3%
2 OAs 43 22.1%
3 OAs 25 12.8%
4 OAs 29 14.9%
5+ OAs 71 36.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 0.0% 2020 2021: 18.2% 2021 2022: 42.9% 2022 2023: 51.9% 2023 2024: 67.7% 2024 2025: 41.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2020400.0%
202111218.2%
202221942.9%
2023271451.9%
2024312167.7%
2025361541.7%
20266500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 192 0.0% 2.1% 74.5% 0.5%
Action 2 168 0.0% 1.8% 84.5% 1.2%
Action 3 125 0.0% 0.8% 78.4% 1.6%
Action 4 100 0.0% 0.0% 84.0% 1.0%
Action 5 71 0.0% 0.0% 73.2% 5.6%
Action 6 49 0.0% 0.0% 71.4% 2.0%
Action 7 31 0.0% 0.0% 67.7% 6.5%
Action 8 16 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 6.3%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 57.1% 14.3%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 408 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 761 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%
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: 4. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 23, 2024 16/127,247 Reversed §103
Mar. 22, 2024 16/213,021 Affirmed §103
Aug. 31, 2023 16/599,284 Affirmed §103
Aug. 4, 2023 16/302,459 Affirmed N/A

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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