Examiner Hyungjun B Yi

Grant ratio: 1.5% (36th percentile in Art Unit 2146 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 1.5%
Average office actions / grant 3.00
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
98442
Primary art unit
2146
Work group
2140
Technology center
2100
Applications
65
Granted applications
1
Examiner phone
(703) 756-4799
Supervisor
Andrew Jung
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-3779

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 18 39.3% 1.62
Group 177 32.8% 2.41
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.86 186 office actions across 65 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 65 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 13 20.0%
2 OAs 20 30.8%
3 OAs 8 12.3%
4 OAs 15 23.1%
5+ OAs 9 13.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2024: 0.0% 2024 2025: 5.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2024600.0%
20251915.3%
20264000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 65 0.0% 6.2% 90.8% 0.0%
Action 2 52 3.8% 1.9% 96.2% 0.0%
Action 3 32 0.0% 0.0% 96.9% 0.0%
Action 4 24 4.2% 0.0% 91.7% 0.0%
Action 5 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.6% 3 of 186 office actions
All years 1.6% 3 of 186 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%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
5.9%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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