Examiner Quan M. Hua

Grant ratio: 63.3% (36th percentile in Art Unit 2645 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.06. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 63.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.06
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
85661
Primary art unit
2645
Work group
2640
Technology center
2600
Applications
678
Granted applications
429
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7232
Supervisor
Anthony Addy
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7795

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 34 62.4% 2.16
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 2.33 1,583 office actions across 678 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 678 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 262 38.6%
2 OAs 207 30.5%
3 OAs 86 12.7%
4 OAs 60 8.8%
5+ OAs 63 9.3%

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: 45.5% 2009 2010: 55.6% 2010 2011: 60.0% 2011 2012: 75.0% 2012 2013: 80.6% 2013 2014: 61.5% 2014 2015: 69.4% 2015 2016: 56.7% 2016 2017: 53.7% 2017 2018: 58.8% 2018 2019: 77.4% 2019 2020: 79.4% 2020 2021: 85.3% 2021 2022: 83.3% 2022 2023: 87.9% 2023 2024: 82.5% 2024 2025: 48.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008200.0%
2009221045.5%
2010362055.6%
2011402460.0%
2012282175.0%
2013625080.6%
2014261661.5%
2015362569.4%
2016301756.7%
2017412253.7%
2018342058.8%
2019312477.4%
2020342779.4%
2021342985.3%
2022484083.3%
2023332987.9%
2024403382.5%
2025452248.9%
20265600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 678 3.1% 7.7% 72.9% 1.9%
Action 2 416 1.2% 7.0% 85.3% 2.2%
Action 3 209 0.5% 5.7% 85.2% 5.3%
Action 4 123 0.8% 4.9% 88.6% 5.7%
Action 5 63 0.0% 1.6% 93.7% 1.6%
Action 6 41 0.0% 0.0% 95.1% 2.4%
Action 7 21 0.0% 0.0% 95.2% 4.8%
Action 8 13 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.3% 6 of 263 office actions
All years 1.8% 28 of 1,583 office actions
Change +0.5 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%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
2.5%
2014: Alice
1.2%
1.5%
6.7%
0.9%
4.1%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
1.8%
2.4%
1.8%
2024: AI examples
4.8%
2025: August memo
1.8%
1.4%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
14.3% 1/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
14.3% 1/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
33.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 22, 2022 16/323,444 Affirmed §102 · §103
Feb. 24, 2015 11/842,757 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jan. 28, 2015 11/687,275 Reversed N/A
Jul. 30, 2014 11/468,579 Affirmed N/A
Jul. 15, 2014 11/468,428 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jun. 17, 2014 11/530,239 Affirmed N/A
May. 19, 2014 10/879,063 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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