Examiner Eddy Cheung

Grant ratio: 79.1% (98th percentile in Art Unit 2165 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.37. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 79.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.37
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
92259
Primary art unit
2165
Work group
2160
Technology center
2100
Applications
273
Granted applications
216
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9785
Supervisor
Neveen Abel-Jalil
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1760

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 55.5% 2.59
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 2.40 654 office actions across 273 applications
Applications with office actions 98.2% 268 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 5 1.8%
1 OA 114 41.8%
2 OAs 51 18.7%
3 OAs 42 15.4%
4 OAs 32 11.7%
5+ OAs 29 10.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 100.0% 2014 2015: 27.3% 2015 2016: 58.3% 2016 2017: 78.1% 2017 2018: 90.9% 2018 2019: 86.7% 2019 2020: 76.9% 2020 2021: 89.5% 2021 2022: 97.3% 2022 2023: 90.0% 2023 2024: 89.5% 2024 2025: 54.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201411100.0%
201511327.3%
2016241458.3%
2017322578.1%
2018222090.9%
2019151386.7%
2020262076.9%
2021383489.5%
2022373697.3%
2023302790.0%
2024191789.5%
202511654.5%
2026700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 268 4.1% 10.8% 79.9% 0.7%
Action 2 154 4.5% 4.5% 89.6% 0.6%
Action 3 103 1.9% 1.0% 94.2% 1.9%
Action 4 61 4.9% 3.3% 91.8% 0.0%
Action 5 29 6.9% 3.4% 89.7% 0.0%
Action 6 17 0.0% 5.9% 94.1% 0.0%
Action 7 8 12.5% 0.0% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 8 5 20.0% 0.0% 80.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 8.9% 5 of 56 office actions
All years 4.1% 27 of 654 office actions
Change +4.8 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%
0.0%
2014: Alice
6.7%
0.0%
0.0%
10.7%
8.3%
2019: PEG
1.6%
0.0%
1.4%
10.6%
5.3%
2024: AI examples
9.1%
2025: August memo
13.3%
14.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 8. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
37.5% 3/8 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
37.5% 3/8 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.3 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 31, 2024 16/205,984 Reversed §101 · §103
Dec. 29, 2022 16/422,981 Affirmed §103
Sep. 22, 2022 15/680,089 Affirmed §103
Jun. 23, 2022 15/335,011 Reversed New ground of rejection §101 · §103 · §112
Mar. 3, 2021 14/482,105 Affirmed §103
Dec. 2, 2019 13/314,538 Reversed §101
Nov. 19, 2019 14/482,029 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jan. 30, 2017 13/117,499 Affirmed §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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