Examiner Mark P. Stanley

Grant ratio: 20.0% (21st percentile in Art Unit 2427 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.92. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: June 2011
Grant ratio 20.0%
Average office actions / grant 3.92
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
84602
Primary art unit
2427
Work group
2420
Technology center
2400
Applications
60
Granted applications
12

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 7 40.7% 3.44
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 2.88 173 office actions across 60 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 60 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 23 38.3%
2 OAs 11 18.3%
3 OAs 5 8.3%
4 OAs 7 11.7%
5+ OAs 14 23.3%

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: 5.3% 2008 2009: 23.5% 2009 2010: 30.8% 2010 2011: 33.3% 2011

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2007200.0%
20081915.3%
200917423.5%
201013430.8%
20119333.3%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 60 0.0% 25.0% 75.0% 0.0%
Action 2 37 0.0% 16.2% 83.8% 0.0%
Action 3 26 0.0% 19.2% 76.9% 3.8%
Action 4 21 0.0% 9.5% 90.5% 0.0%
Action 5 14 0.0% 7.1% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 6 10 0.0% 10.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 7 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 173 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

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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