Examiner Conrad Pack

Grant ratio: 32.9% (17th percentile in Art Unit 2174 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.66. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: March 2025
Grant ratio 32.9%
Average office actions / grant 3.66
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
87560
Primary art unit
2174
Work group
2170
Technology center
2100
Applications
289
Granted applications
95

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 22 46.9% 2.93
Group 189 48.3% 2.73
Tech Center 1,817 51.4% 2.19
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.56 1,076 office actions across 302 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 302 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 52 17.2%
2 OAs 66 21.9%
3 OAs 38 12.6%
4 OAs 66 21.9%
5+ OAs 80 26.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 0.0% 2010 2011: 10.0% 2011 2012: 38.9% 2012 2013: 22.2% 2013 2014: 10.0% 2014 2015: 23.3% 2015 2016: 34.8% 2016 2017: 18.5% 2017 2018: 26.3% 2018 2019: 25.0% 2019 2020: 20.0% 2020 2021: 56.3% 2021 2022: 43.5% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 80.0% 2024 2025: 40.0% 2025

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2010100.0%
201110110.0%
201218738.9%
201318422.2%
201420210.0%
201530723.3%
201623834.8%
201727518.5%
201819526.3%
201924625.0%
202020420.0%
202116956.3%
2022231043.5%
202310550.0%
2024252080.0%
20255240.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 302 0.0% 2.6% 97.4% 0.0%
Action 2 250 4.0% 1.6% 92.8% 1.6%
Action 3 184 2.7% 0.0% 94.0% 3.3%
Action 4 146 3.4% 0.0% 91.1% 5.5%
Action 5 80 2.5% 0.0% 88.8% 8.8%
Action 6 56 3.6% 0.0% 83.9% 12.5%
Action 7 25 0.0% 0.0% 92.0% 8.0%
Action 8 20 0.0% 0.0% 95.0% 5.0%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.1% 2 of 97 office actions
All years 2.2% 24 of 1,076 office actions
Change -0.2 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%
1.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
1.2%
0.0%
0.0%
4.5%
17.6%
2019: PEG
2.4%
0.0%
0.0%
1.5%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
2.6%
2025: August memo
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 13. Merits outcomes: 11 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
15.4% 2/13 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
15.4% 2/13 decisions
Median appeal duration
18.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 2, 2023 15/275,469 Affirmed §100 · §103 · §120
Sep. 30, 2022 15/693,256 Affirmed §103
Jan. 14, 2022 14/277,167 Reversed §103
Mar. 31, 2020 12/607,675 Affirmed §103 · §112
Dec. 17, 2019 14/286,651 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jul. 22, 2019 14/480,670 Affirmed §103
Jun. 5, 2019 14/196,135 Affirmed §103 · §112
Oct. 20, 2017 12/956,714 Affirmed §103 · §112 · §120
Jul. 20, 2017 12/605,551 Affirmed §103
Mar. 31, 2017 13/035,750 Affirmed §103
Mar. 30, 2017 12/425,966 Affirmed §103
Dec. 14, 2015 12/388,474 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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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