Examiner Jaycee Imperial

Grant ratio: 55.6% (50th percentile in Art Unit 2426 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.59. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: May 2023
Grant ratio 55.6%
Average office actions / grant 3.59
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91988
Primary art unit
2426
Work group
2420
Technology center
2400
Applications
142
Granted applications
79

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 50.0% 2.88
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 3.85 600 office actions across 156 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 156 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 22 14.1%
2 OAs 28 17.9%
3 OAs 27 17.3%
4 OAs 26 16.7%
5+ OAs 53 34.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 66.7% 2016 2017: 56.3% 2017 2018: 40.0% 2018 2019: 50.0% 2019 2020: 52.9% 2020 2021: 61.1% 2021 2022: 64.0% 2022 2023: 75.0% 2023

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2014100.0%
2015500.0%
20169666.7%
201716956.3%
201815640.0%
2019201050.0%
202017952.9%
2021181161.1%
2022251664.0%
2023161275.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 156 0.6% 4.5% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 2 134 0.7% 0.0% 98.5% 0.0%
Action 3 106 0.0% 0.9% 98.1% 0.0%
Action 4 79 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 53 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 33 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 17 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.3% 2 of 600 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
2.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 8. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
62.5% 5/8 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
62.5% 5/8 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 17, 2024 16/227,254 Reversed §103
Sep. 3, 2024 16/275,238 Reversed N/A
Nov. 25, 2022 14/650,420 Affirmed §102 · §103
Apr. 18, 2022 14/758,057 Reversed §103 · §112
Mar. 24, 2022 15/486,422 Reversed §103
Sep. 23, 2020 15/434,478 Reversed §103
Mar. 13, 2019 14/675,320 Affirmed §103
Mar. 19, 2018 14/349,755 Affirmed §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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