Examiner Messeret F Gebre

Grant ratio: 43.8% (18th percentile in Art Unit 2445 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.38. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: July 2026
Grant ratio 43.8%
Average office actions / grant 3.38
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
90614
Primary art unit
2445
Work group
2440
Technology center
2400
Applications
322
Granted applications
141
Examiner phone
(571) 272-8272
Supervisor
Oscar Louie
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1684

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 53.7% 2.46
Group 208 56.0% 2.42
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.08 992 office actions across 322 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 322 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 76 23.6%
2 OAs 72 22.4%
3 OAs 52 16.1%
4 OAs 59 18.3%
5+ OAs 63 19.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 25.0% 2014 2015: 40.0% 2015 2016: 42.1% 2016 2017: 13.6% 2017 2018: 50.0% 2018 2019: 40.7% 2019 2020: 65.0% 2020 2021: 78.3% 2021 2022: 72.7% 2022 2023: 37.5% 2023 2024: 76.1% 2024 2025: 21.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20148225.0%
201510440.0%
201619842.1%
201722313.6%
2018281450.0%
2019271140.7%
2020201365.0%
2021231878.3%
2022221672.7%
202324937.5%
2024463576.1%
202537821.6%
20263600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 322 0.0% 1.9% 97.2% 0.3%
Action 2 246 0.0% 1.2% 95.9% 2.8%
Action 3 174 0.0% 0.6% 97.1% 1.7%
Action 4 122 0.0% 0.8% 96.7% 2.5%
Action 5 63 0.0% 0.0% 95.2% 3.2%
Action 6 33 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 7 15 0.0% 0.0% 93.3% 6.7%
Action 8 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 235 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 992 office actions
Change 0.0 pts 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 1. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
0.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 27, 2021 13/822,813 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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