Examiner Oleg Korsak

Grant ratio: 78.3% (74th percentile in Art Unit 2492 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.08. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 78.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.08
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
88349
Primary art unit
2492
Work group
2490
Technology center
2400
Applications
974
Granted applications
763
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1938

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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 2.07 2,012 office actions across 974 applications
Applications with office actions 97.9% 954 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 20 2.1%
1 OA 403 41.4%
2 OAs 304 31.2%
3 OAs 103 10.6%
4 OAs 87 8.9%
5+ OAs 57 5.9%

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: 100.0% 2011 2012: 33.3% 2012 2013: 71.4% 2013 2014: 71.4% 2014 2015: 82.3% 2015 2016: 86.3% 2016 2017: 80.6% 2017 2018: 77.6% 2018 2019: 89.7% 2019 2020: 95.6% 2020 2021: 96.5% 2021 2022: 87.5% 2022 2023: 93.8% 2023 2024: 91.8% 2024 2025: 53.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201022100.0%
201111100.0%
201218633.3%
2013564071.4%
2014564071.4%
2015625182.3%
2016806986.3%
2017725880.6%
2018765977.6%
2019585289.7%
2020686595.6%
2021858296.5%
2022807087.5%
2023817693.8%
2024615691.8%
2025673653.7%
20265100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 954 0.4% 13.7% 40.8% 1.3%
Action 2 551 1.3% 13.2% 52.3% 2.0%
Action 3 247 2.4% 11.3% 60.3% 2.8%
Action 4 144 0.7% 14.6% 60.4% 3.5%
Action 5 57 1.8% 14.0% 59.6% 5.3%
Action 6 34 0.0% 20.6% 67.6% 0.0%
Action 7 14 0.0% 28.6% 50.0% 7.1%
Action 8 8 0.0% 12.5% 62.5% 12.5%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 334 office actions
All years 0.9% 19 of 2,012 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%
2.7%
0.0%
1.3%
2014: Alice
1.6%
2.7%
0.6%
2.1%
1.4%
2019: PEG
1.0%
0.8%
0.6%
0.0%
0.8%
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: 21. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 12 reversed.

Full reversal rate
57.1% 12/21 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
61.9% 13/21 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.9 months
New grounds of rejection
2
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 1, 2023 16/713,025 Reversed §101 · §102
Jun. 28, 2023 15/915,096 Reversed §103
May. 31, 2023 16/017,867 Reversed §103
Oct. 3, 2022 16/129,306 Affirmed §103
Feb. 22, 2022 17/316,715 Affirmed in part §103
Jun. 1, 2021 15/178,402 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §120
Mar. 10, 2021 15/457,273 Reversed §102
Sep. 15, 2020 15/436,489 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
Apr. 16, 2020 15/345,584 Affirmed §102 · §103
Nov. 28, 2018 14/265,540 Reversed N/A
Aug. 30, 2018 13/292,922 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §103
Dec. 26, 2017 14/043,714 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112

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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