Examiner Omar Casillashernandez

Grant ratio: 70.0% (63rd percentile in Art Unit 2689 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.71. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 70.0%
Average office actions / grant 1.71
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89883
Primary art unit
2689
Work group
2680
Technology center
2600
Applications
667
Granted applications
467
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5432
Supervisor
Joseph Feild
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4090

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 15 64.7% 1.87
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 1.76 1,174 office actions across 667 applications
Applications with office actions 99.1% 661 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 6 0.9%
1 OA 366 54.9%
2 OAs 174 26.1%
3 OAs 53 7.9%
4 OAs 50 7.5%
5+ OAs 18 2.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 100.0% 2011 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 45.5% 2013 2014: 59.4% 2014 2015: 66.7% 2015 2016: 77.8% 2016 2017: 69.5% 2017 2018: 82.0% 2018 2019: 84.7% 2019 2020: 91.1% 2020 2021: 86.0% 2021 2022: 91.7% 2022 2023: 77.4% 2023 2024: 80.0% 2024 2025: 38.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201111100.0%
2012400.0%
2013442045.5%
2014321959.4%
2015332266.7%
2016362877.8%
2017594169.5%
2018504182.0%
2019595084.7%
2020565191.1%
2021504386.0%
2022605591.7%
2023534177.4%
2024453680.0%
2025491938.8%
20263600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 661 0.6% 4.5% 85.9% 2.7%
Action 2 295 0.7% 17.6% 71.2% 6.4%
Action 3 121 0.0% 9.9% 84.3% 4.1%
Action 4 68 1.5% 2.9% 85.3% 10.3%
Action 5 18 0.0% 5.6% 94.4% 0.0%
Action 6 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 3 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 1.4% 3 of 214 office actions
All years 0.6% 7 of 1,174 office actions
Change +0.8 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%
2014: Alice
2.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
2019: PEG
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
4.2%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 13. Merits outcomes: 11 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
7.7% 1/13 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
15.4% 2/13 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 24, 2024 17/053,025 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 4, 2022 16/569,282 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 30, 2020 15/617,506 Reversed §102 · §103
Jan. 22, 2020 14/622,145 Affirmed §103
Jan. 3, 2020 13/551,563 Affirmed §103
Jan. 3, 2020 14/548,337 Affirmed §103
Apr. 26, 2017 14/666,811 Affirmed §103
Mar. 10, 2017 14/045,024 Affirmed §103 · §112
Aug. 16, 2016 13/190,737 Affirmed §103
Jun. 29, 2016 14/045,031 Affirmed §103
Jun. 21, 2016 13/278,270 Affirmed §103
Apr. 28, 2016 13/097,119 Affirmed §103 · §112

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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