Examiner Qing Wu

Grant ratio: 85.7% (98th percentile in Art Unit 2199 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.49. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 85.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.49
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
80386
Primary art unit
2199
Work group
2190
Technology center
2100
Applications
791
Granted applications
678
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3776
Supervisor
Lewis Bullock
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3759

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 51.7% 2.32
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 1.47 1,163 office actions across 791 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 789 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.3%
1 OA 538 68.0%
2 OAs 165 20.9%
3 OAs 58 7.3%
4 OAs 22 2.8%
5+ OAs 6 0.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2007: 100.0% 2007 2008: 85.7% 2008 2009: 78.7% 2009 2010: 94.7% 2010 2011: 89.1% 2011 2012: 95.8% 2012 2013: 84.4% 2013 2014: 100.0% 2014 2015: 92.1% 2015 2016: 86.0% 2016 2017: 87.0% 2017 2018: 94.0% 2018 2019: 92.5% 2019 2020: 94.6% 2020 2021: 92.3% 2021 2022: 90.2% 2022 2023: 94.3% 2023 2024: 91.3% 2024 2025: 61.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200711100.0%
2008141285.7%
2009473778.7%
2010383694.7%
2011464189.1%
2012484695.8%
2013322784.4%
20145454100.0%
2015383592.1%
2016504386.0%
2017464087.0%
2018504794.0%
2019534992.5%
2020373594.6%
2021393692.3%
2022413790.2%
2023353394.3%
2024464291.3%
2025442761.4%
20263200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 789 14.2% 14.8% 43.5% 18.0%
Action 2 251 13.1% 13.5% 45.0% 20.3%
Action 3 86 7.0% 9.3% 53.5% 19.8%
Action 4 28 3.6% 0.0% 71.4% 14.3%
Action 5 6 16.7% 0.0% 66.7% 16.7%
Action 6 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 10.6% 19 of 179 office actions
All years 13.2% 153 of 1,163 office actions
Change -2.5 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%
3.7%
3.1%
12.3%
10.4%
10.1%
29.8%
2014: Alice
26.8%
15.7%
13.0%
21.0%
27.3%
2019: PEG
5.4%
18.0%
3.1%
6.3%
10.0%
2024: AI examples
10.8%
2025: August memo
16.1%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 9. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
11.1% 1/9 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
11.1% 1/9 decisions
Median appeal duration
30.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 25, 2021 15/682,717 Affirmed §102 · §112
Dec. 13, 2016 12/853,827 Affirmed §102 · §103
Nov. 28, 2016 13/590,467 Reversed §101
Aug. 12, 2015 11/807,473 Affirmed §102 · §103
May. 26, 2015 11/695,873 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 21, 2014 11/880,957 Affirmed §103
Jul. 8, 2013 10/775,545 Affirmed §103
Feb. 26, 2013 11/109,218 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103 · §112
Nov. 27, 2012 11/212,958 Affirmed §102 · §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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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