Examiner Miranda Le

Grant ratio: 68.2% (42nd percentile in Art Unit 2153 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.75. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: September 2026
Grant ratio 68.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.75
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
79502
Primary art unit
2153
Work group
2150
Technology center
2100
Applications
522
Granted applications
356
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4112

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 13 70.2% 2.51
Group 119 58.9% 2.64
Tech Center 1,817 51.4% 2.19
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.76 1,440 office actions across 522 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 521 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.2%
1 OA 103 19.7%
2 OAs 226 43.3%
3 OAs 37 7.1%
4 OAs 100 19.2%
5+ OAs 55 10.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 100.0% 2008 2009: 80.0% 2009 2010: 100.0% 2010 2012: 76.9% 2012 2013: 72.4% 2013 2014: 74.5% 2014 2015: 40.9% 2015 2016: 55.6% 2016 2017: 70.0% 2017 2018: 60.0% 2018 2019: 81.6% 2019 2020: 69.7% 2020 2021: 80.0% 2021 2022: 78.1% 2022 2023: 91.4% 2023 2024: 95.5% 2024 2025: 8.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200822100.0%
2009655280.0%
201055100.0%
2012131076.9%
2013292172.4%
2014513874.5%
201522940.9%
2016271555.6%
2017302170.0%
2018352160.0%
2019383181.6%
2020332369.7%
2021352880.0%
2022322578.1%
2023353291.4%
2024222195.5%
20252428.3%
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 521 0.2% 6.3% 87.3% 0.0%
Action 2 418 0.7% 2.4% 96.2% 0.0%
Action 3 192 0.0% 0.5% 99.0% 0.0%
Action 4 155 0.0% 0.0% 99.4% 0.0%
Action 5 55 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 46 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 18 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 16 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.1% 3 of 146 office actions
All years 0.3% 4 of 1,440 office actions
Change +1.8 pts Percentage points

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

By year

0.0%
0.0%
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%
1.4%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
4.9%
3.6%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
75.0% 3/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jan. 6, 2022 15/182,118 Reversed §103
Apr. 28, 2020 14/189,433 Reversed §103
Dec. 27, 2016 13/333,155 Affirmed §103 · §112
Feb. 27, 2013 11/141,537 Affirmed in part §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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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