Examiner Kelvin Booker

Grant ratio: 74.6% (75th percentile in Art Unit 2127 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.11. Most common rejection type: §102.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 74.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.11
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
76751
Primary art unit
2127
Work group
2120
Technology center
2100
Applications
492
Granted applications
367
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7827

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 29 47.2% 1.95
Group 333 45.2% 1.98
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.10 1,031 office actions across 492 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 490 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.4%
1 OA 236 48.0%
2 OAs 128 26.0%
3 OAs 54 11.0%
4 OAs 37 7.5%
5+ OAs 35 7.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 50.0% 2010 2011: 88.5% 2011 2012: 92.1% 2012 2013: 76.7% 2013 2014: 75.0% 2014 2015: 63.0% 2015 2016: 72.5% 2016 2017: 70.4% 2017 2018: 77.6% 2018 2019: 72.4% 2019 2020: 81.8% 2020 2021: 90.5% 2021 2022: 85.7% 2022 2023: 93.1% 2023 2024: 80.0% 2024 2025: 43.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20108450.0%
2011262388.5%
2012383592.1%
2013433376.7%
2014241875.0%
2015271763.0%
2016402972.5%
2017271970.4%
2018493877.6%
2019292172.4%
2020443681.8%
2021211990.5%
2022211885.7%
2023292793.1%
2024252080.0%
2025231043.5%
20261800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 490 1.8% 57.8% 34.9% 3.5%
Action 2 254 0.4% 53.5% 43.7% 2.4%
Action 3 126 0.0% 42.1% 55.6% 0.8%
Action 4 72 0.0% 45.8% 52.8% 1.4%
Action 5 35 0.0% 37.1% 62.9% 0.0%
Action 6 27 0.0% 44.4% 55.6% 0.0%
Action 7 14 0.0% 28.6% 71.4% 0.0%
Action 8 7 14.3% 28.6% 57.1% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 66.7% 33.3% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.1% 3 of 97 office actions
All years 1.1% 11 of 1,031 office actions
Change +2.0 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%
1.1%
2014: Alice
1.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
1.1%
2019: PEG
0.0%
1.6%
3.6%
3.0%
2.7%
2024: AI examples
6.7%
2025: August memo
3.1%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 10. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 5/10 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 5/10 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 8, 2025 17/149,014 Affirmed §102 · §103
Aug. 2, 2022 15/384,193 Affirmed §103
Apr. 27, 2022 14/014,276 Reversed §102
Jan. 26, 2022 14/016,788 Reversed §103
Nov. 18, 2021 16/781,695 Affirmed §101
Nov. 15, 2021 14/614,344 Reversed §101 · §103 · §112
Dec. 16, 2016 13/322,973 Affirmed §102 · §103
Sep. 29, 2016 12/603,489 Reversed §103
Jun. 28, 2016 12/278,389 Affirmed §103
Jun. 10, 2016 12/241,958 Reversed §102

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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