Examiner Olujimi Adesanya

Grant ratio: 58.2% (45th percentile in Art Unit 2658 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.76. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 58.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.76
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
83977
Primary art unit
2658
Work group
2650
Technology center
2600
Applications
711
Granted applications
414
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3307
Supervisor
Richemond Dorvil
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7602

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 22 60.2% 1.95
Group 210 59.0% 1.87
Tech Center 1,759 56.9% 1.88
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.73 1,941 office actions across 711 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 709 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.3%
1 OA 236 33.2%
2 OAs 179 25.2%
3 OAs 84 11.8%
4 OAs 89 12.5%
5+ OAs 121 17.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 11.1% 2008 2009: 20.0% 2009 2010: 61.5% 2010 2011: 52.6% 2011 2012: 44.2% 2012 2013: 67.9% 2013 2014: 52.6% 2014 2015: 59.5% 2015 2016: 60.5% 2016 2017: 66.7% 2017 2018: 82.1% 2018 2019: 74.4% 2019 2020: 76.7% 2020 2021: 75.0% 2021 2022: 81.8% 2022 2023: 81.6% 2023 2024: 76.5% 2024 2025: 30.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200818211.1%
200920420.0%
2010261661.5%
2011382052.6%
2012431944.2%
2013281967.9%
2014382052.6%
2015372259.5%
2016382360.5%
2017392666.7%
2018393282.1%
2019392974.4%
2020433376.7%
2021443375.0%
2022443681.8%
2023494081.6%
2024342676.5%
2025461430.4%
20264800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 709 4.5% 7.1% 84.2% 1.7%
Action 2 473 7.0% 3.2% 87.3% 1.5%
Action 3 294 5.1% 4.8% 88.4% 1.0%
Action 4 210 4.8% 3.3% 90.5% 0.5%
Action 5 121 4.1% 1.7% 91.7% 0.8%
Action 6 69 0.0% 2.9% 97.1% 0.0%
Action 7 36 0.0% 0.0% 97.2% 2.8%
Action 8 20 0.0% 0.0% 95.0% 5.0%
Action 9 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 8.0% 20 of 249 office actions
All years 4.9% 95 of 1,941 office actions
Change +3.1 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-02–2026-10-02. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2.2%
3.3%
2.2%
1.8%
1.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
6.1%
6.1%
6.4%
5.4%
11.3%
2019: PEG
1.0%
2.8%
6.0%
10.9%
5.2%
2024: AI examples
6.6%
2025: August memo
13.0%
3.1%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 34. Merits outcomes: 21 affirmed, 4 affirmed in part, and 9 reversed.

Full reversal rate
26.5% 9/34 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
38.2% 13/34 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.9 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 28, 2026 17/440,108 Affirmed §103
May. 12, 2026 18/634,501 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Mar. 31, 2026 17/831,283 Affirmed in part §103 · §120
Oct. 23, 2025 17/598,633 Reversed §101
Sep. 12, 2025 18/151,968 Affirmed §101
May. 30, 2023 15/981,062 Affirmed §102 · §103
Mar. 21, 2023 13/274,940 Affirmed §103
Jan. 26, 2023 16/380,106 Affirmed §103
Jul. 1, 2022 16/556,358 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Jul. 21, 2021 15/479,485 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Apr. 29, 2021 15/004,098 Affirmed §101
Jul. 1, 2020 12/200,905 Affirmed in part §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. 9, 2026.

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