Examiner Jason Pringle-Parker

Grant ratio: 74.5% (79th percentile in Art Unit 2618 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.05. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 74.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.05
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
89269
Primary art unit
2618
Work group
2610
Technology center
2600
Applications
585
Granted applications
436
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5690

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 29 56.5% 1.87
Group 291 49.1% 1.92
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.02 1,180 office actions across 585 applications
Applications with office actions 98.8% 578 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 7 1.2%
1 OA 267 45.6%
2 OAs 163 27.9%
3 OAs 71 12.1%
4 OAs 45 7.7%
5+ OAs 32 5.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 66.7% 2012 2013: 66.7% 2013 2014: 50.0% 2014 2015: 70.3% 2015 2016: 69.6% 2016 2017: 82.5% 2017 2018: 80.0% 2018 2019: 93.8% 2019 2020: 92.9% 2020 2021: 97.1% 2021 2022: 82.2% 2022 2023: 89.5% 2023 2024: 94.2% 2024 2025: 47.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20126466.7%
2013241666.7%
2014261350.0%
2015372670.3%
2016463269.6%
2017403382.5%
2018453680.0%
2019484593.8%
2020423992.9%
2021353497.1%
2022453782.2%
2023575189.5%
2024524994.2%
2025442147.7%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 578 2.9% 11.4% 76.6% 2.4%
Action 2 311 1.6% 8.0% 84.6% 2.6%
Action 3 148 2.0% 6.1% 84.5% 2.0%
Action 4 77 1.3% 6.5% 84.4% 1.3%
Action 5 32 3.1% 9.4% 84.4% 0.0%
Action 6 20 0.0% 15.0% 80.0% 5.0%
Action 7 8 12.5% 0.0% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 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 1.3% 3 of 231 office actions
All years 2.4% 28 of 1,180 office actions
Change -1.1 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
1.0%
5.2%
4.5%
9.8%
2019: PEG
3.8%
0.0%
4.5%
1.0%
1.2%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
2.7%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 9. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
44.4% 4/9 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
55.6% 5/9 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.2 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 30, 2021 15/047,556 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jun. 7, 2019 14/589,095 Reversed §103
Jul. 31, 2017 13/017,302 Affirmed in part §102 · §112
Mar. 21, 2017 13/371,579 Affirmed §103
Feb. 8, 2017 13/370,951 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Jan. 13, 2017 13/648,801 Affirmed New ground of rejection §101 · §102 · §112
Oct. 27, 2016 12/636,311 Reversed §103
Mar. 14, 2016 12/636,287 Reversed §103
Mar. 14, 2016 12/636,331 Reversed 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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