Examiner Aneta B Cieslewicz

Grant ratio: 54.2% (25th percentile in Art Unit 2829 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.86. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 54.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.86
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
79655
Primary art unit
2829
Work group
2820
Technology center
2800
Applications
273
Granted applications
148
Examiner phone
(303) 297-4232
Supervisor
Sue Purvis
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1236

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 68.3% 1.82
Group 207 71.2% 1.64
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.04 830 office actions across 273 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 273 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 68 24.9%
2 OAs 79 28.9%
3 OAs 35 12.8%
4 OAs 35 12.8%
5+ OAs 56 20.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 100.0% 2014 2015: 58.3% 2015 2016: 57.1% 2016 2017: 57.7% 2017 2018: 54.5% 2018 2019: 80.0% 2019 2020: 80.0% 2020 2021: 75.0% 2021 2022: 61.1% 2022 2023: 68.4% 2023 2024: 77.8% 2024 2025: 42.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201411100.0%
2015241458.3%
2016281657.1%
2017261557.7%
2018221254.5%
2019201680.0%
2020151280.0%
2021161275.0%
2022181161.1%
2023191368.4%
2024181477.8%
2025281242.9%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 273 1.5% 7.3% 89.4% 1.5%
Action 2 205 3.4% 6.3% 82.9% 5.9%
Action 3 126 2.4% 11.1% 79.4% 5.6%
Action 4 91 1.1% 4.4% 85.7% 7.7%
Action 5 56 0.0% 1.8% 85.7% 12.5%
Action 6 35 0.0% 2.9% 82.9% 14.3%
Action 7 16 0.0% 6.3% 87.5% 6.3%
Action 8 11 0.0% 0.0% 81.8% 9.1%
Action 9 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 198 office actions
All years 1.8% 15 of 830 office actions
Change -1.8 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
4.8%
18.2%
2019: PEG
1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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: 4. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 17, 2021 14/744,417 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jan. 21, 2021 14/626,629 Affirmed in part §101 · §112
Dec. 14, 2017 14/467,229 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jun. 23, 2017 14/044,816 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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