Examiner Peiliang Pan

Grant ratio: 70.7% (50th percentile in Art Unit 2492 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.53. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: February 2025
Grant ratio 70.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.53
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
81036
Primary art unit
2492
Work group
2490
Technology center
2400
Applications
427
Granted applications
302

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 58.7% 2.15
Group 198 61.4% 2.06
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.65 1,164 office actions across 439 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 439 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 124 28.2%
2 OAs 130 29.6%
3 OAs 76 17.3%
4 OAs 56 12.8%
5+ OAs 53 12.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 50.0% 2008 2009: 100.0% 2009 2010: 100.0% 2010 2011: 83.9% 2011 2012: 63.2% 2012 2013: 71.4% 2013 2014: 71.4% 2014 2015: 72.0% 2015 2016: 54.5% 2016 2017: 64.0% 2017 2018: 62.5% 2018 2019: 70.6% 2019 2020: 72.0% 2020 2021: 73.5% 2021 2022: 63.0% 2022 2023: 82.4% 2023 2024: 73.5% 2024 2025: 100.0% 2025

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20082150.0%
200955100.0%
201011100.0%
2011312683.9%
2012382463.2%
2013423071.4%
2014352571.4%
2015251872.0%
2016221254.5%
2017251664.0%
2018241562.5%
2019342470.6%
2020251872.0%
2021342573.5%
2022271763.0%
2023171482.4%
2024342573.5%
202566100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 439 0.2% 1.6% 96.4% 0.7%
Action 2 315 0.6% 1.3% 95.6% 1.3%
Action 3 185 0.5% 1.1% 97.8% 0.0%
Action 4 109 0.9% 0.9% 95.4% 1.8%
Action 5 53 0.0% 1.9% 96.2% 0.0%
Action 6 34 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 15 0.0% 6.7% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 8 9 11.1% 0.0% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 9 4 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 0.9% 1 of 111 office actions
All years 0.5% 6 of 1,164 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
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
2.6%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
1.3%
0.0%
1.5%
1.4%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 16. Merits outcomes: 7 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 6 reversed.

Full reversal rate
37.5% 6/16 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
56.3% 9/16 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 28, 2024 17/056,704 Reversed §103
May. 28, 2024 16/201,515 Reversed §103
Sep. 19, 2023 16/403,994 Reversed §103
Nov. 22, 2022 16/211,092 Affirmed §103
Sep. 8, 2021 14/556,197 Affirmed §103
Dec. 30, 2020 15/468,771 Reversed §103
Jan. 22, 2019 14/615,129 Reversed §103
Sep. 28, 2018 14/679,145 Affirmed in part N/A
Jul. 11, 2018 11/106,286 Affirmed in part §103
Feb. 16, 2016 12/197,550 Affirmed §103
Nov. 27, 2015 11/806,588 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 29, 2015 12/501,701 Affirmed N/A

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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