Examiner Jean B. Fleurantin

Grant ratio: 88.7% (90th percentile in Art Unit 2162 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.81. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: May 2019
Grant ratio 88.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.81
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
75536
Primary art unit
2162
Work group
2160
Technology center
2100
Applications
752
Granted applications
667

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 70.0% 2.07
Group 196 60.2% 2.52
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.80 1,383 office actions across 770 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 770 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 337 43.8%
2 OAs 317 41.2%
3 OAs 78 10.1%
4 OAs 23 3.0%
5+ OAs 15 1.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 80.3% 2008 2009: 84.6% 2009 2010: 91.5% 2010 2011: 87.7% 2011 2012: 93.9% 2012 2013: 86.5% 2013 2014: 93.4% 2014 2015: 91.0% 2015 2016: 89.7% 2016 2017: 93.3% 2017 2018: 92.0% 2018 2019: 77.3% 2019

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008766180.3%
2009917784.6%
2010595491.5%
2011575087.7%
2012827793.9%
2013746486.5%
2014615793.4%
2015676191.0%
2016686189.7%
2017454293.3%
2018504692.0%
2019221777.3%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 770 3.5% 37.3% 41.3% 0.8%
Action 2 433 9.7% 25.9% 44.3% 0.2%
Action 3 116 15.5% 17.2% 44.0% 1.7%
Action 4 38 18.4% 18.4% 55.3% 0.0%
Action 5 15 20.0% 6.7% 53.3% 0.0%
Action 6 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 8 2 50.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 7.1% 98 of 1,383 office actions
Change N/A Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

17.9%
5.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2014: Alice
1.5%
0.0%
0.8%
14.0%
30.7%
2019: PEG
18.8%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
71.4% 5/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
85.7% 6/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
27.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 3, 2016 13/477,789 Reversed §103
Aug. 3, 2015 12/483,620 Reversed N/A
Jul. 21, 2015 12/875,276 Reversed N/A
Apr. 13, 2015 11/966,419 Affirmed in part N/A
Mar. 25, 2015 12/100,764 Reversed N/A
Jan. 25, 2012 11/237,585 Affirmed N/A
Jun. 24, 2011 11/192,938 Reversed §101 · §102
May. 17, 2010 11/059,510 Dismissed 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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