Examiner Yujang Tswei

Grant ratio: 70.0% (58th percentile in Art Unit 2619 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.14. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 70.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.14
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
90856
Primary art unit
2619
Work group
2610
Technology center
2600
Applications
536
Granted applications
375
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6669
Supervisor
Kent Chang
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7667

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 19 68.5% 1.84
Group 292 48.5% 1.92
Tech Center 1,763 56.6% 1.88
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.07 1,108 office actions across 536 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 535 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.2%
1 OA 240 44.8%
2 OAs 146 27.2%
3 OAs 72 13.4%
4 OAs 46 8.6%
5+ OAs 31 5.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 10.0% 2014 2015: 70.0% 2015 2016: 65.5% 2016 2017: 76.0% 2017 2018: 86.0% 2018 2019: 91.8% 2019 2020: 91.1% 2020 2021: 97.1% 2021 2022: 90.2% 2022 2023: 93.6% 2023 2024: 86.8% 2024 2025: 65.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201410110.0%
2015302170.0%
2016291965.5%
2017251976.0%
2018433786.0%
2019494591.8%
2020565191.1%
2021353497.1%
2022413790.2%
2023474493.6%
2024534686.8%
2025322165.6%
20268600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 535 0.4% 1.3% 93.3% 1.1%
Action 2 295 1.0% 5.1% 92.9% 0.7%
Action 3 149 0.0% 1.3% 96.6% 0.7%
Action 4 77 0.0% 0.0% 97.4% 2.6%
Action 5 31 3.2% 0.0% 96.8% 0.0%
Action 6 13 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.3% 1 of 290 office actions
All years 0.5% 6 of 1,108 office actions
Change -0.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2014: Alice
1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
5.9%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.9%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 5. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
20.0% 1/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
10.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 2, 2019 15/075,696 Affirmed in part §103
Sep. 19, 2018 13/879,397 Affirmed §103
Feb. 26, 2018 13/610,749 Affirmed §103
Feb. 12, 2018 14/487,392 Affirmed §103
Mar. 28, 2017 13/602,946 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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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