Examiner Jessica N. Le

Grant ratio: 68.5% (59th percentile in Art Unit 2157 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.72. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 68.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.72
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
82240
Primary art unit
2157
Work group
2150
Technology center
2100
Applications
523
Granted applications
358
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1009
Supervisor
Sherief Badawi
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-9782

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 17 63.5% 2.71
Group 119 59.3% 2.64
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.85 1,488 office actions across 523 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 521 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.4%
1 OA 151 28.9%
2 OAs 136 26.0%
3 OAs 87 16.6%
4 OAs 65 12.4%
5+ OAs 82 15.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 36.0% 2008 2009: 52.9% 2009 2010: 78.1% 2010 2011: 75.7% 2011 2012: 93.0% 2012 2013: 92.3% 2013 2014: 69.6% 2014 2015: 73.5% 2015 2016: 75.0% 2016 2017: 78.8% 2017 2018: 82.5% 2018 2019: 77.1% 2019 2020: 75.0% 2020 2021: 33.3% 2021 2022: 50.0% 2022 2023: 58.8% 2023 2024: 73.3% 2024 2025: 15.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200825936.0%
2009341852.9%
2010322578.1%
2011372875.7%
2012434093.0%
2013393692.3%
2014231669.6%
2015342573.5%
2016282175.0%
2017332678.8%
2018403382.5%
2019352777.1%
2020201575.0%
202115533.3%
2022201050.0%
2023171058.8%
2024151173.3%
202519315.8%
20261400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 521 2.7% 16.7% 74.3% 1.3%
Action 2 370 4.3% 15.4% 76.8% 1.4%
Action 3 234 5.1% 10.3% 82.9% 0.4%
Action 4 147 3.4% 4.1% 90.5% 0.7%
Action 5 82 2.4% 4.9% 87.8% 1.2%
Action 6 54 5.6% 0.0% 94.4% 0.0%
Action 7 36 2.8% 2.8% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 8 21 4.8% 4.8% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 9 7 0.0% 28.6% 71.4% 0.0%
Action 10 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 8.3% 13 of 157 office actions
All years 3.6% 54 of 1,488 office actions
Change +4.7 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%
3.4%
0.0%
4.2%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
13.3%
2019: PEG
2.7%
1.8%
8.9%
19.4%
7.1%
2024: AI examples
11.3%
2025: August memo
2.2%
5.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 17. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 10 reversed.

Full reversal rate
58.8% 10/17 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
64.7% 11/17 decisions
Median appeal duration
25.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 8, 2026 17/148,177 Affirmed §101
Apr. 22, 2026 18/314,488 Reversed §103
Dec. 23, 2025 16/045,625 Reversed §101
Aug. 22, 2023 15/645,843 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103 · §112
Jul. 26, 2021 15/168,223 Affirmed in part §103
Feb. 10, 2021 15/277,385 Reversed §101 · §103
Jan. 14, 2020 14/087,794 Reversed §101 · §103
Aug. 2, 2019 14/416,309 Reversed §103
May. 18, 2018 11/843,576 Reversed N/A
Jan. 18, 2017 14/231,378 Affirmed §101 · §103
Feb. 18, 2015 12/338,596 Reversed §103
Apr. 29, 2014 10/837,001 Reversed N/A

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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