Examiner Leron Beck

Grant ratio: 71.6% (56th percentile in Art Unit 2487 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.07. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 71.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.07
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88017
Primary art unit
2487
Work group
2480
Technology center
2400
Applications
924
Granted applications
662
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1175
Supervisor
David Czekaj
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7327

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 17 68.7% 2.12
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 2.09 1,933 office actions across 924 applications
Applications with office actions 98.9% 914 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 10 1.1%
1 OA 393 42.5%
2 OAs 273 29.5%
3 OAs 124 13.4%
4 OAs 64 6.9%
5+ OAs 60 6.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 100.0% 2010 2011: 50.0% 2011 2012: 59.1% 2012 2013: 57.6% 2013 2014: 60.6% 2014 2015: 81.8% 2015 2016: 76.7% 2016 2017: 77.0% 2017 2018: 82.5% 2018 2019: 81.3% 2019 2020: 87.7% 2020 2021: 91.9% 2021 2022: 93.0% 2022 2023: 93.8% 2023 2024: 89.2% 2024 2025: 38.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201011100.0%
201112650.0%
2012442659.1%
2013593457.6%
2014664060.6%
2015776381.8%
2016604676.7%
2017745777.0%
2018635282.5%
2019645281.3%
2020655787.7%
2021746891.9%
2022434093.0%
2023484593.8%
2024655889.2%
2025441738.6%
20266500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 914 1.8% 3.1% 78.0% 1.5%
Action 2 521 1.0% 1.7% 87.9% 0.8%
Action 3 248 0.4% 2.0% 93.1% 0.8%
Action 4 124 0.8% 0.8% 92.7% 0.8%
Action 5 60 0.0% 0.0% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 6 37 0.0% 0.0% 91.9% 2.7%
Action 7 15 0.0% 0.0% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 8 9 0.0% 0.0% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.3% 1 of 322 office actions
All years 1.2% 23 of 1,933 office actions
Change -0.9 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%
4.2%
0.8%
0.6%
2014: Alice
2.0%
0.7%
0.0%
1.2%
0.8%
2019: PEG
1.8%
0.7%
2.4%
2.9%
2.4%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
1.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 35. Merits outcomes: 10 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 22 reversed.

Full reversal rate
62.9% 22/35 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
71.4% 25/35 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 24, 2025 17/747,684 Reversed §103
Apr. 15, 2025 17/832,353 Affirmed §102 · §103
Sep. 13, 2024 16/563,080 Reversed §103
Jun. 15, 2023 16/113,302 Reversed §103 · §112
Mar. 7, 2023 16/830,535 Reversed §102 · §103
Nov. 30, 2022 13/006,904 Reversed §103
Nov. 5, 2021 15/712,344 Reversed §102
Mar. 24, 2021 14/989,372 Affirmed §103 · §112
Nov. 3, 2020 15/523,365 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Jun. 16, 2020 15/370,127 Reversed §103
Apr. 29, 2020 15/409,105 Reversed §102 · §103
Apr. 17, 2020 13/977,756 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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