Examiner Ricardo L. Osorio

Grant ratio: 85.0% (97th percentile in Art Unit 2692 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.62. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 85.0%
Average office actions / grant 1.62
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
73943
Primary art unit
2692
Work group
2690
Technology center
2600
Applications
839
Granted applications
713
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7676
Supervisor
Lunyi Lao
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7671

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 56.1% 2.01
Group 96 51.2% 2.11
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.66 1,390 office actions across 839 applications
Applications with office actions 99.2% 832 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 7 0.8%
1 OA 504 60.1%
2 OAs 206 24.6%
3 OAs 62 7.4%
4 OAs 29 3.5%
5+ OAs 31 3.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 98.0% 2008 2009: 88.7% 2009 2010: 93.7% 2010 2011: 92.5% 2011 2012: 94.9% 2012 2013: 82.4% 2013 2014: 83.9% 2014 2015: 85.7% 2015 2016: 87.5% 2016 2017: 92.0% 2017 2018: 76.6% 2018 2019: 83.7% 2019 2020: 95.8% 2020 2021: 93.1% 2021 2022: 86.4% 2022 2023: 82.4% 2023 2024: 90.6% 2024 2025: 67.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008494898.0%
2009534788.7%
2010635993.7%
2011676292.5%
2012595694.9%
2013514282.4%
2014564783.9%
2015423685.7%
2016564987.5%
2017504692.0%
2018473676.6%
2019433683.7%
2020242395.8%
2021292793.1%
2022221986.4%
2023342882.4%
2024322990.6%
2025342367.6%
20262800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 832 2.3% 22.2% 38.0% 3.0%
Action 2 328 0.0% 27.4% 59.5% 2.4%
Action 3 122 0.0% 19.7% 74.6% 0.8%
Action 4 60 0.0% 15.0% 81.7% 1.7%
Action 5 31 0.0% 9.7% 87.1% 0.0%
Action 6 11 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 192 office actions
All years 1.4% 19 of 1,390 office actions
Change -1.4 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

1.5%
0.0%
3.2%
1.9%
2.3%
2.6%
2014: Alice
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
1.8%
2019: PEG
0.0%
3.2%
2.1%
0.0%
1.2%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 5. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
20.0% 1/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
60.0% 3/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
10.8 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 27, 2026 17/153,346 Reversed §103
Aug. 5, 2022 15/835,891 Affirmed §103
Feb. 23, 2017 14/098,047 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §102 · §103
Dec. 30, 2016 13/840,770 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Dec. 31, 2013 10/691,461 Affirmed N/A

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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