Examiner Jason Mandeville

Grant ratio: 49.6% (13th percentile in Art Unit 2697 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.98. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 49.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.98
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
83733
Primary art unit
2697
Work group
2620
Technology center
2600
Applications
793
Granted applications
393
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3136
Supervisor
Chanh Nguyen
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7772

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 12 62.0% 2.12
Group 279 55.5% 2.00
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.79 2,213 office actions across 793 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 791 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.3%
1 OA 195 24.6%
2 OAs 263 33.2%
3 OAs 103 13.0%
4 OAs 126 15.9%
5+ OAs 104 13.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 28.6% 2008 2009: 35.0% 2009 2010: 47.8% 2010 2011: 50.0% 2011 2012: 38.6% 2012 2013: 52.4% 2013 2014: 46.3% 2014 2015: 44.4% 2015 2016: 47.6% 2016 2017: 52.8% 2017 2018: 61.2% 2018 2019: 61.1% 2019 2020: 74.4% 2020 2021: 74.4% 2021 2022: 73.5% 2022 2023: 59.1% 2023 2024: 69.0% 2024 2025: 39.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200828828.6%
2009401435.0%
2010462247.8%
2011341750.0%
2012441738.6%
2013633352.4%
2014411946.3%
2015361644.4%
2016422047.6%
2017361952.8%
2018493061.2%
2019362261.1%
2020392974.4%
2021392974.4%
2022342573.5%
2023442659.1%
2024422969.0%
2025461839.1%
20265400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 791 0.4% 24.3% 63.6% 1.3%
Action 2 596 0.7% 17.1% 74.8% 3.4%
Action 3 333 0.0% 9.9% 85.0% 2.1%
Action 4 230 0.0% 10.0% 83.0% 5.2%
Action 5 104 0.0% 4.8% 87.5% 4.8%
Action 6 68 0.0% 1.5% 89.7% 7.4%
Action 7 33 0.0% 0.0% 93.9% 6.1%
Action 8 20 5.0% 0.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 9 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.3% 1 of 331 office actions
All years 0.4% 8 of 2,213 office actions
Change -0.1 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%
0.8%
0.0%
1.5%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
1.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.1%
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: 7 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
23.1% 3/13 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
46.2% 6/13 decisions
Median appeal duration
25.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 31, 2024 16/915,168 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Jun. 23, 2021 15/373,929 Affirmed §103
May. 14, 2021 14/591,047 Affirmed §103
Jan. 1, 2021 15/321,020 Reversed §103 · §120
Jun. 28, 2019 14/064,022 Affirmed §103
Jun. 27, 2019 13/809,525 Reversed §102
Jun. 27, 2018 12/906,025 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Jul. 6, 2015 11/289,325 Affirmed N/A
Mar. 12, 2015 11/911,185 Affirmed in part N/A
Oct. 31, 2013 11/293,525 Affirmed §103
May. 14, 2012 10/542,910 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jan. 31, 2012 11/098,784 Reversed §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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