Examiner Opiribo Georgewill

Grant ratio: 60.2% (14th percentile in Art Unit 2643 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.71. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: December 2014
Grant ratio 60.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.71
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86547
Primary art unit
2643
Work group
2640
Technology center
2600
Applications
261
Granted applications
157

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 65.0% 2.10
Group 226 57.7% 2.06
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.61 680 office actions across 261 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 261 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 84 32.2%
2 OAs 72 27.6%
3 OAs 33 12.6%
4 OAs 40 15.3%
5+ OAs 32 12.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 22.2% 2009 2010: 31.3% 2010 2011: 54.2% 2011 2012: 60.0% 2012 2013: 77.2% 2013 2014: 75.4% 2014

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200918422.2%
2010321031.3%
2011482654.2%
2012452760.0%
2013574477.2%
2014614675.4%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 261 0.0% 5.4% 90.4% 3.4%
Action 2 177 0.6% 2.8% 93.8% 1.7%
Action 3 105 0.0% 1.0% 96.2% 1.0%
Action 4 72 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 32 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 17 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 680 office actions
Change N/A 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%
2014: Alice
1.2%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
32.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 19, 2015 11/733,603 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 25, 2014 12/022,175 Affirmed §103
Sep. 29, 2014 11/693,974 Affirmed §103
Aug. 26, 2014 11/855,344 Affirmed §103
Oct. 22, 2013 10/596,399 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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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