Examiner Luis Perez-Fuentes

Grant ratio: 74.4% (81st percentile in Art Unit 2481 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.71. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 74.4%
Average office actions / grant 1.71
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
87975
Primary art unit
2481
Work group
2480
Technology center
2400
Applications
746
Granted applications
555
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1168

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 21 56.1% 1.99
Group 174 59.1% 2.00
Tech Center 1,763 57.8% 2.14
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.78 1,330 office actions across 749 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 749 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 422 56.3%
2 OAs 194 25.9%
3 OAs 62 8.3%
4 OAs 45 6.0%
5+ OAs 26 3.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 14.3% 2011 2012: 79.3% 2012 2013: 68.9% 2013 2014: 63.8% 2014 2015: 80.0% 2015 2016: 82.1% 2016 2017: 88.1% 2017 2018: 72.9% 2018 2019: 83.3% 2019 2020: 80.0% 2020 2021: 90.9% 2021 2022: 89.8% 2022 2023: 95.0% 2023 2024: 98.1% 2024 2025: 51.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20117114.3%
2012292379.3%
2013453168.9%
2014473063.8%
2015504080.0%
2016393282.1%
2017423788.1%
2018483572.9%
2019665583.3%
2020504080.0%
2021555090.9%
2022494489.8%
2023605795.0%
2024545398.1%
2025522751.9%
20265300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 749 0.7% 6.3% 71.0% 0.9%
Action 2 327 0.3% 3.7% 83.2% 1.8%
Action 3 133 0.8% 1.5% 91.7% 1.5%
Action 4 71 1.4% 0.0% 94.4% 0.0%
Action 5 26 0.0% 0.0% 92.3% 3.8%
Action 6 15 0.0% 0.0% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 202 office actions
All years 0.6% 8 of 1,330 office actions
Change -0.6 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-02–2026-10-02. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
3.0%
2019: PEG
1.0%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.9%
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: 16. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 8 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 8/16 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
62.5% 10/16 decisions
Median appeal duration
20.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 5, 2025 17/981,969 Reversed §103
Oct. 2, 2023 16/305,462 Reversed §103
Sep. 29, 2021 13/630,105 Affirmed §103 · §112
Nov. 3, 2020 14/144,441 Reversed §103 · §112
Jul. 9, 2020 13/893,906 Affirmed §103 · §112
Dec. 18, 2019 14/297,508 Reversed §101 · §103 · §112
Sep. 25, 2018 13/526,705 Affirmed N/A
Sep. 21, 2018 14/104,944 Reversed §103
Mar. 2, 2017 13/214,030 Affirmed §101 · §103
May. 25, 2016 12/428,151 Affirmed in part §103
May. 12, 2016 12/271,772 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
May. 4, 2016 12/873,077 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 Oct. 9, 2026.

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