Examiner Daniel Wonsuk Chung

Grant ratio: 27.7% (16th percentile in Art Unit 2659 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.96. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 27.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.96
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
98056
Primary art unit
2659
Work group
2650
Technology center
2600
Applications
83
Granted applications
23
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1345
Supervisor
Pierre-Louis Desir
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7799

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 58.8% 1.91
Group 210 59.4% 1.87
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.39 198 office actions across 83 applications
Applications with office actions 97.6% 81 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 2.4%
1 OA 25 30.1%
2 OAs 21 25.3%
3 OAs 18 21.7%
4 OAs 11 13.3%
5+ OAs 6 7.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2023: 41.7% 2023 2024: 62.5% 2024 2025: 20.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202312541.7%
2024241562.5%
202515320.0%
20263200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 81 2.5% 3.7% 91.4% 0.0%
Action 2 56 5.4% 1.8% 91.1% 1.8%
Action 3 35 2.9% 0.0% 88.6% 2.9%
Action 4 17 0.0% 0.0% 94.1% 0.0%
Action 5 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.2% 6 of 188 office actions
All years 3.0% 6 of 198 office actions
Change +0.2 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%
2024: AI examples
1.7%
2025: August memo
3.3%
7.3%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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