Examiner Warner Wong

Grant ratio: 83.8% (86th percentile in Art Unit 2469 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.80. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 83.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.80
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
81109
Primary art unit
2469
Work group
2460
Technology center
2400
Applications
1,104
Granted applications
925
Examiner phone
(571) 272-8197
Supervisor
Ian Moore
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3085

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 69.0% 1.88
Group 225 60.1% 2.07
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.78 1,968 office actions across 1,104 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 1,101 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.3%
1 OA 570 51.6%
2 OAs 330 29.9%
3 OAs 128 11.6%
4 OAs 41 3.7%
5+ OAs 32 2.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 79.6% 2008 2009: 86.2% 2009 2010: 81.4% 2010 2011: 88.7% 2011 2012: 82.5% 2012 2013: 79.1% 2013 2014: 93.2% 2014 2015: 87.9% 2015 2016: 89.9% 2016 2017: 91.4% 2017 2018: 85.5% 2018 2019: 91.2% 2019 2020: 93.1% 2020 2021: 100.0% 2021 2022: 96.2% 2022 2023: 94.5% 2023 2024: 94.6% 2024 2025: 69.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008544379.6%
2009585086.2%
2010433581.4%
2011534788.7%
2012403382.5%
2013675379.1%
2014595593.2%
2015665887.9%
2016696289.9%
2017706491.4%
2018695985.5%
2019686291.2%
2020585493.1%
20215454100.0%
2022535196.2%
2023555294.5%
2024565394.6%
2025584069.0%
20265400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,101 1.5% 13.4% 75.7% 0.4%
Action 2 531 0.6% 4.7% 90.6% 1.1%
Action 3 201 2.5% 6.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 4 73 0.0% 2.7% 94.5% 0.0%
Action 5 32 3.1% 6.3% 90.6% 0.0%
Action 6 18 0.0% 5.6% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 7 8 0.0% 0.0% 87.5% 12.5%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 271 office actions
All years 1.3% 26 of 1,968 office actions
Change -1.3 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%
6.3%
1.9%
0.0%
1.9%
1.7%
2014: Alice
0.0%
4.0%
0.8%
0.0%
3.7%
2019: PEG
1.1%
0.0%
1.2%
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: 2. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
23.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jan. 23, 2018 13/777,382 Affirmed §103
Apr. 24, 2012 09/790,998 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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