Examiner Peijie Shen

Grant ratio: 70.2% (83rd percentile in Art Unit 2694 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.02. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 70.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.02
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
90237
Primary art unit
2694
Work group
2690
Technology center
2600
Applications
363
Granted applications
255
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5522
Supervisor
Patrick Edouard
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7603

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 48.8% 2.24
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 2.11 765 office actions across 363 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 363 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 149 41.0%
2 OAs 116 32.0%
3 OAs 50 13.8%
4 OAs 24 6.6%
5+ OAs 24 6.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 60.0% 2013 2014: 80.6% 2014 2015: 75.9% 2015 2016: 89.5% 2016 2017: 69.2% 2017 2018: 63.3% 2018 2019: 81.5% 2019 2020: 68.8% 2020 2021: 94.7% 2021 2022: 75.0% 2022 2023: 86.2% 2023 2024: 96.0% 2024 2025: 48.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201310660.0%
2014312580.6%
2015292275.9%
2016191789.5%
2017261869.2%
2018301963.3%
2019272281.5%
2020322268.8%
2021191894.7%
2022322475.0%
2023292586.2%
2024252496.0%
2025271348.1%
20262700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 363 0.6% 7.4% 84.3% 3.6%
Action 2 214 0.0% 3.7% 90.2% 3.3%
Action 3 98 0.0% 2.0% 91.8% 5.1%
Action 4 48 0.0% 2.1% 97.9% 0.0%
Action 5 24 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 11 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 7 3 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%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.6% 1 of 163 office actions
All years 0.3% 2 of 765 office actions
Change +0.4 pts Percentage points

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

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.7%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
23.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 16, 2016 12/529,688 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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