Examiner Coris Fung

Grant ratio: 23.2% (31st percentile in Art Unit 1787 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 4.03. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 23.2%
Average office actions / grant 4.03
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
87477
Primary art unit
1787
Work group
1780
Technology center
1700
Applications
267
Granted applications
62
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5713
Supervisor
Callie Shosho
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1123

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 31.6% 3.26
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 3.38 916 office actions across 271 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 271 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 30 11.1%
2 OAs 92 33.9%
3 OAs 29 10.7%
4 OAs 58 21.4%
5+ OAs 62 22.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 0.0% 2011 2012: 18.8% 2012 2013: 22.9% 2013 2014: 14.7% 2014 2015: 42.4% 2015 2016: 37.0% 2016 2017: 30.0% 2017 2018: 21.4% 2018 2019: 26.3% 2019 2020: 25.0% 2020 2021: 16.7% 2021 2023: 0.0% 2023 2024: 50.0% 2024 2025: 0.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20112000.0%
201232618.8%
201335822.9%
201434514.7%
2015331442.4%
2016271037.0%
201720630.0%
201814321.4%
201919526.3%
202012325.0%
20216116.7%
2023100.0%
20242150.0%
2025100.0%
20261100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 271 0.0% 7.0% 89.3% 2.6%
Action 2 241 0.0% 6.2% 87.1% 4.1%
Action 3 149 0.0% 3.4% 90.6% 4.0%
Action 4 120 0.0% 2.5% 91.7% 4.2%
Action 5 62 0.0% 1.6% 90.3% 8.1%
Action 6 38 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 18 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 10 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 6 0.0% 0.0% 83.3% 16.7%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 23 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 916 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
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: 16. Merits outcomes: 15 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/16 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
6.3% 1/16 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 25, 2021 13/146,022 Affirmed §103
Dec. 10, 2020 15/054,487 Affirmed §103
Sep. 18, 2020 13/265,742 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 18, 2020 12/957,947 Affirmed §103
Jan. 30, 2020 14/273,567 Affirmed §103
Dec. 17, 2019 15/133,838 Affirmed §103
Sep. 26, 2018 13/484,514 Affirmed §102 · §103
Apr. 23, 2018 13/833,193 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jan. 3, 2018 13/334,468 Affirmed §103
Feb. 7, 2017 12/625,002 Affirmed §102 · §103
Dec. 29, 2016 11/574,030 Affirmed §103
Mar. 29, 2016 13/170,642 Affirmed §102 · §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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