Examiner Anibal Rivera Cruz

Grant ratio: 82.4% (83rd percentile in Art Unit 2192 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 82.4%
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
87882
Primary art unit
2192
Work group
2190
Technology center
2100
Applications
794
Granted applications
654
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1200
Supervisor
Hyung S Sough
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6799

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 57.7% 2.07
Group 238 52.6% 2.03
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.67 1,325 office actions across 794 applications
Applications with office actions 99.4% 789 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 5 0.6%
1 OA 455 57.3%
2 OAs 210 26.4%
3 OAs 78 9.8%
4 OAs 26 3.3%
5+ OAs 20 2.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 76.9% 2011 2012: 94.8% 2012 2013: 84.8% 2013 2014: 91.2% 2014 2015: 91.8% 2015 2016: 87.5% 2016 2017: 75.6% 2017 2018: 87.9% 2018 2019: 92.9% 2019 2020: 87.7% 2020 2021: 100.0% 2021 2022: 94.1% 2022 2023: 94.5% 2023 2024: 92.6% 2024 2025: 53.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2011131076.9%
2012585594.8%
2013463984.8%
2014686291.2%
2015494591.8%
2016322887.5%
2017413175.6%
2018585187.9%
2019565292.9%
2020655787.7%
20214646100.0%
2022514894.1%
2023555294.5%
2024545092.6%
2025522853.8%
20265000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 789 3.5% 16.1% 75.7% 1.4%
Action 2 334 2.7% 11.4% 83.5% 1.2%
Action 3 124 0.8% 5.6% 91.1% 1.6%
Action 4 46 0.0% 8.7% 91.3% 0.0%
Action 5 20 0.0% 15.0% 75.0% 0.0%
Action 6 8 12.5% 0.0% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 10.1% 25 of 247 office actions
All years 2.9% 39 of 1,325 office actions
Change +7.2 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
4.8%
0.0%
1.1%
0.0%
2019: PEG
1.0%
0.9%
4.2%
4.1%
2.6%
2024: AI examples
9.9%
2025: August memo
13.3%
9.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
18.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 29, 2021 16/001,553 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Dec. 29, 2016 13/535,913 Affirmed §102 · §103
May. 21, 2015 12/025,987 Reversed N/A

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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