Examiner Alan Wong

Grant ratio: 76.4% (45th percentile in Art Unit 2843 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: September 2026
Grant ratio 76.4%
Average office actions / grant 1.62
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
81352
Primary art unit
2843
Work group
2840
Technology center
2800
Applications
626
Granted applications
478
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3238
Supervisor
Andrea Lindgren Baltzell
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-5918

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 52.9% 1.37
Group 232 67.9% 1.60
Tech Center 2,428 61.6% 1.69
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.68 1,050 office actions across 626 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 624 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.3%
1 OA 359 57.3%
2 OAs 177 28.3%
3 OAs 44 7.0%
4 OAs 27 4.3%
5+ OAs 17 2.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 78.4% 2008 2009: 85.7% 2009 2010: 79.5% 2010 2011: 94.4% 2011 2012: 96.8% 2012 2013: 80.0% 2013 2014: 74.2% 2014 2015: 92.6% 2015 2016: 85.7% 2016 2017: 93.9% 2017 2018: 89.7% 2018 2019: 62.5% 2019 2020: 81.6% 2020 2021: 92.0% 2021 2022: 85.0% 2022 2023: 83.3% 2023 2024: 61.1% 2024 2025: 42.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008372978.4%
2009282485.7%
2010393179.5%
2011363494.4%
2012313096.8%
2013302480.0%
2014312374.2%
2015272592.6%
2016353085.7%
2017333193.9%
2018292689.7%
2019322062.5%
2020383181.6%
2021252392.0%
2022403485.0%
2023302583.3%
2024362261.1%
2025381642.1%
20263100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 624 0.5% 10.9% 70.7% 12.3%
Action 2 265 0.0% 10.2% 78.1% 9.8%
Action 3 88 0.0% 8.0% 84.1% 3.4%
Action 4 44 0.0% 4.5% 86.4% 6.8%
Action 5 17 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 9 0.0% 0.0% 88.9% 11.1%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 193 office actions
All years 0.3% 3 of 1,050 office actions
Change -0.3 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-02–2026-10-02. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
2.1%
0.0%
2.0%
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: 5. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
20.0% 1/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
20.0% 1/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.0 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 7, 2025 16/752,956 Affirmed §103 · §112 · §120
Jun. 18, 2025 16/922,758 Affirmed §103
Apr. 28, 2025 16/125,801 Affirmed §102 · §103
Sep. 6, 2024 17/975,928 Affirmed §103
Aug. 13, 2018 13/803,385 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §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 Oct. 9, 2026.

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