Examiner Tracy Mangialaschi

Grant ratio: 67.6% (31st percentile in Art Unit 2668 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.10. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 67.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.10
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86947
Primary art unit
2668
Work group
2660
Technology center
2600
Applications
621
Granted applications
420
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5189
Supervisor
Vu Le
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7332

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 62.5% 1.58
Group 289 63.2% 1.66
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.03 1,258 office actions across 621 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 620 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.2%
1 OA 306 49.3%
2 OAs 145 23.3%
3 OAs 82 13.2%
4 OAs 46 7.4%
5+ OAs 41 6.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 0.0% 2009 2010: 0.0% 2010 2011: 42.3% 2011 2012: 51.9% 2012 2013: 70.3% 2013 2014: 73.9% 2014 2015: 76.9% 2015 2016: 63.6% 2016 2017: 74.3% 2017 2018: 83.3% 2018 2019: 84.6% 2019 2020: 82.1% 2020 2021: 87.5% 2021 2022: 90.7% 2022 2023: 90.3% 2023 2024: 90.2% 2024 2025: 40.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2009200.0%
20102300.0%
2011261142.3%
2012271451.9%
2013372670.3%
2014231773.9%
2015262076.9%
2016332163.6%
2017352674.3%
2018302583.3%
2019393384.6%
2020393282.1%
2021484287.5%
2022433990.7%
2023625690.3%
2024413790.2%
2025522140.4%
20263500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 620 0.3% 5.8% 83.1% 0.6%
Action 2 314 0.0% 2.2% 88.2% 1.3%
Action 3 169 0.0% 1.8% 88.8% 1.8%
Action 4 87 1.1% 2.3% 89.7% 2.3%
Action 5 41 2.4% 0.0% 97.6% 0.0%
Action 6 17 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.5% 1 of 187 office actions
All years 0.3% 4 of 1,258 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
1.3%
0.0%
2.7%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
1.7%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 6. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
16.7% 1/6 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
16.7% 1/6 decisions
Median appeal duration
28.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 1, 2022 15/777,489 Reversed §103
Jul. 25, 2016 12/913,021 Affirmed §103
Feb. 29, 2016 11/729,689 Affirmed §103
May. 18, 2015 12/327,873 Affirmed N/A
Feb. 18, 2014 11/669,575 Affirmed §102 · §103
Dec. 31, 2013 11/679,736 Affirmed §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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