Examiner Yong Choe At Telephone Number 571-270-1053 Or Email To Yong.Choe@Uspto.Gov. The Examiner Can Normally Be Reached On M-F 10:00 Am To 6:30Pm. If Attempts To Reach The Examiner By Telephone Are Unsuccessful, The Examiner’S Supervisor, Sanjiv Shah Can Be Reached On 571-272-4098. Any Inquiry Of A General Nature Or Relating To The Status Of This Application Should Be Directed To The Tc 2100

Grant ratio: 86.4% (90th percentile in Art Unit 2135 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.55. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 86.4%
Average office actions / grant 1.55
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
82195
Primary art unit
2135
Work group
2130
Technology center
2100
Applications
920
Granted applications
795
Examiner phone
(571) 272-2100

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 18 67.4% 2.01
Group 138 68.3% 2.08
Tech Center 1,817 51.4% 2.19
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.54 1,419 office actions across 920 applications
Applications with office actions 99.3% 914 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 6 0.7%
1 OA 544 59.1%
2 OAs 283 30.8%
3 OAs 52 5.7%
4 OAs 23 2.5%
5+ OAs 12 1.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 68.8% 2008 2009: 74.4% 2009 2010: 87.5% 2010 2011: 94.4% 2011 2012: 93.2% 2012 2013: 88.9% 2013 2014: 91.7% 2014 2015: 94.3% 2015 2016: 96.6% 2016 2017: 94.6% 2017 2018: 93.0% 2018 2019: 92.6% 2019 2020: 95.7% 2020 2021: 100.0% 2021 2022: 100.0% 2022 2023: 95.2% 2023 2024: 100.0% 2024 2025: 55.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008322268.8%
2009433274.4%
2010322887.5%
2011545194.4%
2012595593.2%
2013635688.9%
2014605591.7%
2015535094.3%
2016585696.6%
2017565394.6%
2018575393.0%
2019545092.6%
2020464495.7%
20214141100.0%
20224242100.0%
2023424095.2%
20244545100.0%
2025402255.0%
20264300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 914 5.9% 43.2% 38.2% 2.7%
Action 2 370 3.0% 25.1% 47.0% 14.1%
Action 3 87 3.4% 11.5% 64.4% 13.8%
Action 4 35 0.0% 8.6% 65.7% 20.0%
Action 5 12 0.0% 8.3% 66.7% 16.7%
Action 6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.7% 3 of 181 office actions
All years 4.8% 68 of 1,419 office actions
Change -3.1 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

1.6%
1.6%
17.9%
14.3%
7.4%
6.6%
2014: Alice
6.2%
3.7%
3.1%
9.3%
5.4%
2019: PEG
1.3%
1.6%
0.0%
1.3%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
3.3%
2.1%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 8. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
62.5% 5/8 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
75.0% 6/8 decisions
Median appeal duration
19.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 2, 2021 15/197,183 Reversed §112
Jan. 31, 2019 14/739,996 Affirmed N/A
May. 21, 2018 14/461,454 Reversed §112
Mar. 28, 2012 10/973,485 Affirmed in part §102 · §103 · §112
Oct. 31, 2011 10/969,648 Reversed §103
Aug. 3, 2011 11/280,554 Reversed §102 · §103
May. 17, 2011 11/115,675 Affirmed §103
Sep. 13, 2010 10/730,619 Reversed §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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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