Examiner Deirdre Beasley

Grant ratio: 56.7% (14th percentile in Art Unit 2482 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.78. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 56.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.78
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
89666
Primary art unit
2482
Work group
2480
Technology center
2400
Applications
247
Granted applications
140
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3677
Supervisor
Chris Kelley
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7331

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 60.2% 2.06
Group 173 59.9% 2.01
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.47 678 office actions across 274 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 274 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 102 37.2%
2 OAs 71 25.9%
3 OAs 39 14.2%
4 OAs 32 11.7%
5+ OAs 30 10.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 60.0% 2012 2013: 51.9% 2013 2014: 36.4% 2014 2015: 58.1% 2015 2016: 61.8% 2016 2017: 74.4% 2017 2018: 77.8% 2018 2019: 55.6% 2019 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20125360.0%
2013271451.9%
2014331236.4%
2015311858.1%
2016342161.8%
2017433274.4%
2018453577.8%
20199555.6%
20262000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 274 2.6% 10.9% 81.4% 0.4%
Action 2 172 0.0% 9.3% 87.8% 0.0%
Action 3 101 0.0% 5.9% 91.1% 0.0%
Action 4 62 0.0% 6.5% 88.7% 0.0%
Action 5 30 0.0% 0.0% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 6 21 0.0% 4.8% 90.5% 0.0%
Action 7 12 0.0% 8.3% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 20 office actions
All years 1.0% 7 of 678 office actions
Change -1.0 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%
0.0%
1.1%
2014: Alice
0.0%
3.8%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
4.5%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 31, 2020 15/063,952 Reversed §103
Jan. 30, 2020 14/456,163 Affirmed §103
Oct. 29, 2018 13/391,955 Reversed N/A
Jul. 21, 2016 13/053,713 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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