Examiner Joseph Morris

Grant ratio: 3.4% (56th percentile in Art Unit 2188 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 3.4%
Average office actions / grant 3.00
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
99822
Primary art unit
2188
Work group
2180
Technology center
2100
Applications
59
Granted applications
2
Examiner phone
(703) 756-5735
Supervisor
Ryan Pitaro
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4071

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 11 22.6% 1.74
Group 178 52.5% 1.89
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.05 121 office actions across 59 applications
Applications with office actions 98.3% 58 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 1.7%
1 OA 23 39.0%
2 OAs 17 28.8%
3 OAs 9 15.3%
4 OAs 8 13.6%
5+ OAs 1 1.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2024: 0.0% 2024 2025: 9.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2024200.0%
20252129.5%
20263600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 58 5.2% 6.9% 81.0% 5.2%
Action 2 35 2.9% 5.7% 85.7% 11.4%
Action 3 18 5.6% 0.0% 88.9% 5.6%
Action 4 9 11.1% 0.0% 77.8% 22.2%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 5.0% 6 of 121 office actions
All years 5.0% 6 of 121 office actions
Change 0.0 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
2.8%
9.8%

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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