Examiner Konrad Kulikowski

Grant ratio: 35.5% (18th percentile in Art Unit 2177 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.76. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: August 2019
Grant ratio 35.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.76
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91921
Primary art unit
2177
Work group
2170
Technology center
2100
Applications
107
Granted applications
38

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 17 43.4% 2.85
Group 190 48.6% 2.73
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.90 391 office actions across 135 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 135 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 30 22.2%
2 OAs 46 34.1%
3 OAs 13 9.6%
4 OAs 28 20.7%
5+ OAs 18 13.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 33.3% 2014 2015: 21.4% 2015 2016: 21.1% 2016 2017: 34.5% 2017 2018: 33.3% 2018 2019: 55.6% 2019

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20143133.3%
201514321.4%
201619421.1%
2017291034.5%
201815533.3%
2019271555.6%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 135 0.7% 10.4% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 2 105 3.8% 6.7% 86.7% 1.9%
Action 3 59 1.7% 3.4% 93.2% 1.7%
Action 4 46 0.0% 4.3% 93.5% 0.0%
Action 5 18 5.6% 0.0% 77.8% 5.6%
Action 6 13 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 7 14.3% 0.0% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 8 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 2.0% 8 of 391 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

2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
0.0%
8.9%
2019: PEG
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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