Examiner Royit Yu

Grant ratio: 42.9% (4th percentile in Art Unit 2685 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.67. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: March 2017
Grant ratio 42.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.67
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
89915
Primary art unit
2685
Work group
2680
Technology center
2600
Applications
119
Granted applications
51

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 14 68.9% 1.89
Group 114 64.6% 1.80
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.39 285 office actions across 119 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 119 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 41 34.5%
2 OAs 32 26.9%
3 OAs 19 16.0%
4 OAs 17 14.3%
5+ OAs 10 8.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 37.5% 2013 2014: 54.5% 2014 2015: 18.5% 2015 2016: 51.6% 2016 2017: 100.0% 2017

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2012100.0%
201324937.5%
2014331854.5%
201527518.5%
2016311651.6%
201733100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 119 0.0% 2.5% 95.0% 2.5%
Action 2 78 1.3% 2.6% 92.3% 3.8%
Action 3 46 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 27 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 10 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 3 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 N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.4% 1 of 285 office actions
Change N/A 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
2.2%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jan. 18, 2017 13/679,131 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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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