Examiner Pablo Tran

Grant ratio: 77.9% (57th percentile in Art Unit 2649 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.81. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 77.9%
Average office actions / grant 1.81
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
74925
Primary art unit
2649
Work group
2640
Technology center
2600
Applications
697
Granted applications
543
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7898

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 41 60.9% 1.96
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 1.88 1,311 office actions across 697 applications
Applications with office actions 99.9% 696 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.1%
1 OA 389 55.8%
2 OAs 155 22.2%
3 OAs 70 10.0%
4 OAs 46 6.6%
5+ OAs 36 5.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 83.3% 2008 2009: 79.5% 2009 2010: 65.0% 2010 2011: 84.4% 2011 2012: 86.0% 2012 2013: 83.6% 2013 2014: 74.5% 2014 2015: 78.0% 2015 2016: 85.3% 2016 2017: 79.4% 2017 2018: 92.5% 2018 2019: 84.8% 2019 2020: 80.5% 2020 2021: 90.2% 2021 2022: 87.5% 2022 2023: 94.3% 2023 2024: 82.1% 2024 2025: 46.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008121083.3%
2009393179.5%
2010201365.0%
2011322784.4%
2012504386.0%
2013554683.6%
2014473574.5%
2015503978.0%
2016342985.3%
2017342779.4%
2018403792.5%
2019332884.8%
2020413380.5%
2021413790.2%
2022322887.5%
2023353394.3%
2024393282.1%
2025321546.9%
20263100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 696 0.9% 18.4% 51.9% 7.3%
Action 2 307 0.3% 14.7% 71.7% 7.5%
Action 3 152 0.0% 11.8% 77.0% 7.9%
Action 4 82 0.0% 7.3% 81.7% 7.3%
Action 5 36 0.0% 13.9% 75.0% 8.3%
Action 6 18 0.0% 11.1% 83.3% 5.6%
Action 7 11 0.0% 9.1% 81.8% 9.1%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.6% 1 of 156 office actions
All years 0.5% 7 of 1,311 office actions
Change +0.1 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
1.1%
1.3%
0.0%
1.2%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.2%
2.0%
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: 8. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
25.0% 2/8 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
25.0% 2/8 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 24, 2022 15/075,025 Affirmed §102 · §120
Sep. 16, 2021 15/672,363 Affirmed N/A
Mar. 23, 2018 13/490,702 Affirmed §103
Sep. 18, 2017 13/783,589 Affirmed §103
Mar. 28, 2017 13/795,424 Reversed §102
Dec. 20, 2016 10/537,195 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Feb. 27, 2013 11/295,987 Affirmed §103
Feb. 10, 2012 10/850,774 Reversed §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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