Examiner Terrell Johnson

Grant ratio: 79.2% (84th percentile in Art Unit 2187 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.68. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 79.2%
Average office actions / grant 1.68
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
84227
Primary art unit
2187
Work group
2110
Technology center
2100
Applications
496
Granted applications
393
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3485
Supervisor
Jaweed Abbaszadeh
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1640

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 46.7% 1.83
Group 214 64.2% 1.69
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.72 852 office actions across 496 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 496 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 298 60.1%
2 OAs 107 21.6%
3 OAs 53 10.7%
4 OAs 21 4.2%
5+ OAs 17 3.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 63.6% 2011 2012: 93.3% 2012 2013: 75.9% 2013 2014: 63.3% 2014 2015: 58.6% 2015 2016: 67.7% 2016 2017: 91.8% 2017 2018: 88.9% 2018 2019: 95.6% 2019 2020: 91.2% 2020 2021: 92.0% 2021 2022: 94.4% 2022 2023: 96.7% 2023 2024: 97.4% 2024 2025: 50.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201111763.6%
2012302893.3%
2013292275.9%
2014301963.3%
2015291758.6%
2016312167.7%
2017494591.8%
2018454088.9%
2019454395.6%
2020343191.2%
2021252392.0%
2022181794.4%
2023302996.7%
2024383797.4%
2025281450.0%
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 496 3.2% 33.5% 50.6% 1.8%
Action 2 198 1.0% 15.7% 74.2% 1.0%
Action 3 91 1.1% 12.1% 82.4% 1.1%
Action 4 38 2.6% 10.5% 84.2% 2.6%
Action 5 17 5.9% 0.0% 88.2% 0.0%
Action 6 7 14.3% 14.3% 71.4% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 5.0% 6 of 121 office actions
All years 2.6% 22 of 852 office actions
Change +2.4 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
1.3%
0.0%
1.0%
7.1%
4.9%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
6.9%
9.1%
5.4%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
6.3%
12.0%

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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