Examiner Jerry Wu

Grant ratio: 64.5% (31st percentile in Art Unit 2835 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.70. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 64.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.70
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86618
Primary art unit
2835
Work group
2830
Technology center
2800
Applications
1,024
Granted applications
660
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5420

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 46 66.9% 1.64
Group 354 67.0% 1.58
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.84 1,882 office actions across 1,024 applications
Applications with office actions 99.9% 1,023 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.1%
1 OA 571 55.8%
2 OAs 254 24.8%
3 OAs 99 9.7%
4 OAs 52 5.1%
5+ OAs 47 4.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 33.3% 2009 2010: 58.3% 2010 2011: 43.5% 2011 2012: 61.7% 2012 2013: 39.3% 2013 2014: 62.5% 2014 2015: 64.3% 2015 2016: 80.6% 2016 2017: 76.6% 2017 2018: 84.4% 2018 2019: 84.8% 2019 2020: 79.7% 2020 2021: 66.7% 2021 2022: 88.2% 2022 2023: 68.8% 2023 2024: 72.4% 2024 2025: 13.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20096233.3%
2010724258.3%
2011622743.5%
20121076661.7%
2013562239.3%
2014724562.5%
2015704564.3%
2016675480.6%
2017644976.6%
2018776584.4%
2019665684.8%
2020645179.7%
2021513466.7%
2022514588.2%
2023483368.8%
2024292172.4%
202523313.0%
20263900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,023 0.0% 8.7% 88.4% 1.9%
Action 2 452 0.0% 8.8% 87.8% 3.3%
Action 3 198 0.0% 5.6% 88.9% 5.1%
Action 4 99 0.0% 2.0% 91.9% 6.1%
Action 5 47 0.0% 0.0% 93.6% 6.4%
Action 6 30 0.0% 3.3% 83.3% 13.3%
Action 7 16 0.0% 6.3% 81.3% 12.5%
Action 8 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 183 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 1,882 office actions
Change 0.0 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
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: 21. Merits outcomes: 7 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 11 reversed.

Full reversal rate
52.4% 11/21 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 14/21 decisions
Median appeal duration
19.2 months
New grounds of rejection
3
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 23, 2025 16/586,851 Affirmed §103 · §112
Aug. 4, 2025 17/890,871 Reversed §103
Jul. 18, 2024 16/749,417 Affirmed §102 · §112
Jun. 24, 2024 14/809,009 Reversed §103 · §112
Jul. 12, 2021 15/634,952 Reversed New ground of rejection §103
Jun. 17, 2021 15/914,905 Reversed N/A
Nov. 27, 2020 14/453,435 Reversed §103
Sep. 8, 2017 12/765,949 Affirmed in part §103
Jun. 21, 2017 12/352,219 Affirmed §103
May. 30, 2017 13/193,295 Affirmed §103
May. 26, 2017 12/765,992 Reversed §103 · §112
Apr. 18, 2017 13/096,712 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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