Examiner Jeff Piziali

Grant ratio: 38.1% (3rd percentile in Art Unit 2628 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.30. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 38.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.30
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
75558
Primary art unit
2628
Work group
2620
Technology center
2600
Applications
637
Granted applications
243
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7678

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 55.4% 1.88
Group 279 55.5% 2.00
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.48 1,608 office actions across 649 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 649 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 230 35.4%
2 OAs 156 24.0%
3 OAs 115 17.7%
4 OAs 82 12.6%
5+ OAs 66 10.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 0.0% 2008 2009: 5.0% 2009 2010: 0.0% 2010 2011: 8.0% 2011 2012: 16.7% 2012 2013: 4.3% 2013 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 5.3% 2015 2016: 5.6% 2016 2017: 0.0% 2017 2018: 13.6% 2018 2019: 60.2% 2019 2020: 64.0% 2020 2021: 76.9% 2021 2022: 87.8% 2022 2023: 88.9% 2023 2024: 86.5% 2024 2025: 47.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20082100.0%
20092015.0%
20104100.0%
20112528.0%
201224416.7%
20132314.3%
20142800.0%
20153825.3%
20161815.6%
20172600.0%
201822313.6%
2019835060.2%
2020251664.0%
2021524076.9%
2022413687.8%
2023272488.9%
2024524586.5%
2025381847.4%
20263300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 649 1.5% 19.3% 57.2% 20.2%
Action 2 419 0.7% 9.8% 75.7% 12.6%
Action 3 263 1.9% 4.2% 73.0% 19.8%
Action 4 148 0.7% 6.8% 77.7% 14.2%
Action 5 66 1.5% 4.5% 62.1% 30.3%
Action 6 38 0.0% 2.6% 71.1% 23.7%
Action 7 15 0.0% 6.7% 66.7% 26.7%
Action 8 7 0.0% 14.3% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 189 office actions
All years 1.2% 20 of 1,608 office actions
Change -1.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2.9%
0.0%
0.0%
4.3%
1.8%
0.9%
2014: Alice
1.0%
3.3%
1.0%
0.0%
2.8%
2019: PEG
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
0.0%
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: 20. Merits outcomes: 12 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
36.8% 7/19 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
36.8% 7/19 decisions
Median appeal duration
20.8 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 20, 2022 14/591,354 Reversed §103
Apr. 11, 2022 14/751,684 Reversed §102
Sep. 14, 2021 14/790,874 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jan. 25, 2021 12/588,758 Reversed §112
Jul. 27, 2020 13/098,576 Affirmed §103 · §112 · §120
Oct. 17, 2018 12/609,980 Reversed §103 · §112
Feb. 14, 2018 12/076,599 Reversed §102
Oct. 11, 2017 12/445,242 Reversed §103 · §112
Dec. 8, 2016 12/750,276 Affirmed §103
Nov. 30, 2016 12/621,581 Affirmed §103 · §112
Nov. 25, 2016 10/722,084 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §103 · §112
Nov. 16, 2015 12/433,275 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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