Examiner Jasper Kwoh

Grant ratio: 48.8% (22nd percentile in Art Unit 2415 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.16. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 48.8%
Average office actions / grant 3.16
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
75501
Primary art unit
2415
Work group
2410
Technology center
2400
Applications
250
Granted applications
122
Examiner phone
(408) 918-7644
Supervisor
Jeffrey Rutkowski
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1215

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 62.0% 2.22
Group 166 51.7% 1.94
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.17 793 office actions across 250 applications
Applications with office actions 97.2% 243 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 7 2.8%
1 OA 50 20.0%
2 OAs 58 23.2%
3 OAs 34 13.6%
4 OAs 41 16.4%
5+ OAs 60 24.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2018: 12.5% 2018 2019: 20.0% 2019 2020: 52.2% 2020 2021: 76.5% 2021 2022: 72.7% 2022 2023: 65.5% 2023 2024: 66.7% 2024 2025: 41.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20188112.5%
201920420.0%
2020231252.2%
2021342676.5%
2022332472.7%
2023291965.5%
2024362466.7%
2025291241.4%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 243 1.2% 12.3% 77.8% 2.9%
Action 2 193 1.6% 4.7% 85.0% 5.2%
Action 3 135 1.5% 1.5% 91.1% 4.4%
Action 4 101 0.0% 2.0% 90.1% 5.0%
Action 5 60 1.7% 0.0% 86.7% 11.7%
Action 6 33 0.0% 0.0% 93.9% 6.1%
Action 7 16 0.0% 6.3% 81.3% 6.3%
Action 8 9 0.0% 11.1% 77.8% 0.0%
Action 9 2 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 1.3% 4 of 305 office actions
All years 1.1% 9 of 793 office actions
Change +0.2 pts Percentage points

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

By year

4.4%
2019: PEG
0.9%
0.0%
1.2%
0.0%
0.9%
2024: AI examples
3.3%
2025: August memo
0.0%
1.8%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 0 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
100.0% 4/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 4/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
5.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 21, 2023 15/654,195 Reversed §103
Aug. 23, 2021 15/665,135 Reversed §103
Jul. 16, 2021 15/598,470 Reversed §103
Nov. 9, 2020 15/854,983 Reversed §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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