Examiner Ryan Stronczer

Grant ratio: 45.3% (25th percentile in Art Unit 2425 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.34. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: October 2014
Grant ratio 45.3%
Average office actions / grant 3.34
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
84544
Primary art unit
2425
Work group
2420
Technology center
2400
Applications
117
Granted applications
53

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 54.3% 2.69
Group 130 52.7% 2.61
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.10 363 office actions across 117 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 117 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 30 25.6%
2 OAs 32 27.4%
3 OAs 12 10.3%
4 OAs 14 12.0%
5+ OAs 29 24.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2007: 0.0% 2007 2008: 25.0% 2008 2009: 28.0% 2009 2010: 45.0% 2010 2011: 38.5% 2011 2012: 70.0% 2012 2013: 52.4% 2013 2014: 55.6% 2014

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2007100.0%
20088225.0%
200925728.0%
201020945.0%
201113538.5%
2012201470.0%
2013211152.4%
20149555.6%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 117 1.7% 7.7% 89.7% 0.0%
Action 2 87 0.0% 5.7% 93.1% 0.0%
Action 3 55 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 43 0.0% 0.0% 97.7% 2.3%
Action 5 29 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 17 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.6% 2 of 363 office actions
Change N/A 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%
0.0%
2.1%
0.0%
2014: Alice
11.1%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
31.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 27, 2014 11/241,819 Affirmed N/A
Feb. 6, 2014 11/731,575 Affirmed in part N/A
Jun. 27, 2012 10/802,589 Affirmed §103
May. 25, 2012 10/804,581 Affirmed in part §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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