Examiner Duyen Doan

Grant ratio: 76.6% (78th percentile in Art Unit 2452 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.12. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 76.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.12
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
80544
Primary art unit
2452
Work group
2450
Technology center
2400
Applications
701
Granted applications
537
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4226
Supervisor
Tonia Dollinger
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4170

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 64.1% 2.20
Group 210 57.4% 2.41
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.10 1,471 office actions across 701 applications
Applications with office actions 99.9% 700 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.1%
1 OA 335 47.8%
2 OAs 163 23.3%
3 OAs 105 15.0%
4 OAs 49 7.0%
5+ OAs 48 6.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 45.8% 2008 2009: 43.5% 2009 2010: 41.0% 2010 2011: 72.3% 2011 2012: 85.0% 2012 2013: 79.2% 2013 2014: 88.9% 2014 2015: 93.3% 2015 2016: 87.2% 2016 2017: 84.4% 2017 2018: 87.1% 2018 2019: 85.0% 2019 2020: 88.1% 2020 2021: 97.4% 2021 2022: 92.7% 2022 2023: 96.0% 2023 2024: 94.6% 2024 2025: 56.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008241145.8%
2009231043.5%
2010391641.0%
2011473472.3%
2012403485.0%
2013534279.2%
2014454088.9%
2015302893.3%
2016393487.2%
2017453884.4%
2018312787.1%
2019403485.0%
2020423788.1%
2021393897.4%
2022413892.7%
2023252496.0%
2024373594.6%
2025301756.7%
20263100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 700 1.6% 4.9% 74.7% 5.0%
Action 2 365 0.0% 2.5% 89.6% 0.8%
Action 3 202 1.0% 3.0% 90.6% 1.5%
Action 4 97 1.0% 1.0% 91.8% 1.0%
Action 5 48 0.0% 2.1% 89.6% 2.1%
Action 6 28 0.0% 3.6% 92.9% 0.0%
Action 7 17 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.6% 1 of 172 office actions
All years 1.0% 14 of 1,471 office actions
Change -0.4 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
2.3%
4.2%
2.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
3.0%
1.7%
2.0%
4.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.6%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
30.9 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 19, 2014 11/186,358 Affirmed §103
Dec. 10, 2014 10/043,936 Affirmed N/A
Feb. 19, 2014 10/777,284 Reversed §103
Feb. 6, 2014 12/061,222 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Dec. 12, 2012 11/198,536 Reversed §101 · §103
Aug. 8, 2012 09/893,112 Affirmed §103
Jul. 28, 2011 10/269,408 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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