Examiner Dustin D Eyers

Grant ratio: 46.9% (22nd percentile in Art Unit 2164 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.29. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 46.9%
Average office actions / grant 3.29
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
92880
Primary art unit
2164
Work group
2160
Technology center
2100
Applications
254
Granted applications
119
Examiner phone
(408) 918-7562
Supervisor
Amy Ng
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1698

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 17 58.9% 2.70
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 3.34 848 office actions across 254 applications
Applications with office actions 98.8% 251 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 1.2%
1 OA 48 18.9%
2 OAs 52 20.5%
3 OAs 38 15.0%
4 OAs 50 19.7%
5+ OAs 63 24.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2016: 22.2% 2016 2017: 50.0% 2017 2018: 50.0% 2018 2019: 47.4% 2019 2020: 51.6% 2020 2021: 78.6% 2021 2022: 89.7% 2022 2023: 70.0% 2023 2024: 33.3% 2024 2025: 13.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20169222.2%
201714750.0%
2018241250.0%
201919947.4%
2020311651.6%
2021282278.6%
2022292689.7%
2023201470.0%
202418633.3%
202536513.9%
20262600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 251 1.6% 1.2% 95.2% 0.0%
Action 2 203 5.9% 13.3% 79.3% 1.0%
Action 3 151 0.7% 4.6% 90.1% 2.0%
Action 4 113 3.5% 0.9% 95.6% 0.0%
Action 5 63 6.3% 1.6% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 6 39 2.6% 0.0% 97.4% 0.0%
Action 7 16 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 7 28.6% 0.0% 71.4% 0.0%
Action 9 2 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 9.4% 23 of 244 office actions
All years 3.8% 32 of 848 office actions
Change +5.7 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
4.3%
2.4%
2.5%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
3.1%
2.0%
2024: AI examples
2.2%
2025: August memo
17.3%
20.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 14. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 7/14 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
64.3% 9/14 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 22, 2025 17/324,914 Reversed §103
Jun. 28, 2023 15/832,604 Affirmed §103
Sep. 28, 2022 15/491,131 Affirmed in part §103
Jul. 28, 2022 14/831,101 Reversed N/A
Jun. 2, 2022 15/214,082 Affirmed §103
Jun. 1, 2022 15/412,092 Reversed §103
May. 24, 2022 14/687,975 Affirmed in part §103
Feb. 28, 2022 14/316,577 Affirmed §103
Feb. 9, 2022 15/213,816 Affirmed §103
Mar. 29, 2021 14/382,784 Reversed §103
Mar. 24, 2021 14/519,576 Reversed §103
Oct. 26, 2020 14/322,402 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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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