Examiner Rodrigo A Chavez

Grant ratio: 42.3% (24th percentile in Art Unit 2658 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.05. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 42.3%
Average office actions / grant 3.05
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
91564
Primary art unit
2658
Work group
2650
Technology center
2600
Applications
267
Granted applications
113
Examiner phone
(571) 270-0139
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 3.10 828 office actions across 267 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 266 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.4%
1 OA 67 25.1%
2 OAs 67 25.1%
3 OAs 33 12.4%
4 OAs 40 15.0%
5+ OAs 59 22.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 44.4% 2015 2016: 70.6% 2016 2017: 61.1% 2017 2018: 57.7% 2018 2019: 47.6% 2019 2020: 44.8% 2020 2021: 55.0% 2021 2022: 30.0% 2022 2023: 40.9% 2023 2024: 52.2% 2024 2025: 31.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201518844.4%
2016171270.6%
2017181161.1%
2018261557.7%
2019211047.6%
2020291344.8%
2021201155.0%
202220630.0%
202322940.9%
2024231252.2%
202519631.6%
20263400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 266 2.3% 15.4% 77.8% 1.1%
Action 2 199 2.0% 8.0% 89.4% 0.0%
Action 3 132 0.8% 4.5% 93.2% 0.8%
Action 4 99 5.1% 4.0% 89.9% 1.0%
Action 5 59 5.1% 1.7% 91.5% 0.0%
Action 6 40 0.0% 2.5% 97.5% 0.0%
Action 7 18 5.6% 0.0% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 8 10 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% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.1% 2 of 175 office actions
All years 2.4% 20 of 828 office actions
Change -1.3 pts Percentage points

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

By year

0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
3.0%
0.0%
9.8%
13.0%
2019: PEG
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
4.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 6. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 3/6 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
83.3% 5/6 decisions
Median appeal duration
18.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 21, 2025 16/058,505 Reversed §102 · §103
Feb. 27, 2023 16/687,915 Affirmed in part §103
Mar. 18, 2021 15/089,970 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Oct. 9, 2020 14/080,618 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jan. 30, 2020 14/080,141 Reversed §101 · §112
Nov. 25, 2019 13/913,423 Reversed §102 · §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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