Examiner Brian Olion

Grant ratio: 55.5% (12th percentile in Art Unit 2439 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.55. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: January 2014
Grant ratio 55.5%
Average office actions / grant 3.55
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86641
Primary art unit
2439
Work group
2430
Technology center
2400
Applications
119
Granted applications
66

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 59.9% 2.50
Group 233 61.7% 1.99
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.95 351 office actions across 119 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 119 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 38 31.9%
2 OAs 31 26.1%
3 OAs 9 7.6%
4 OAs 18 15.1%
5+ OAs 23 19.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 14.3% 2009 2010: 33.3% 2010 2011: 62.9% 2011 2012: 61.9% 2012 2013: 77.8% 2013 2014: 100.0% 2014

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200914214.3%
201021733.3%
2011352262.9%
2012211361.9%
2013272177.8%
201411100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 119 1.7% 0.8% 94.1% 1.7%
Action 2 81 1.2% 0.0% 97.5% 1.2%
Action 3 50 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 41 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 23 4.3% 0.0% 95.7% 0.0%
Action 6 17 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 13 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 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 N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 1.1% 4 of 351 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%
3.2%
1.7%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%

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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