Examiner Jeremy C. Norris

Grant ratio: 80.5% (74th percentile in Art Unit 2847 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.30. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: July 2026
Grant ratio 80.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.30
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
77216
Primary art unit
2847
Work group
2840
Technology center
2800
Applications
1,010
Granted applications
813
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1932
Supervisor
Timothy Thompson
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2342

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 62.9% 1.65
Group 231 68.9% 1.60
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.29 1,302 office actions across 1,010 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 1,010 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 777 76.9%
2 OAs 187 18.5%
3 OAs 35 3.5%
4 OAs 10 1.0%
5+ OAs 1 0.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 64.9% 2008 2009: 75.9% 2009 2010: 77.1% 2010 2011: 80.0% 2011 2012: 91.2% 2012 2013: 79.0% 2013 2014: 86.2% 2014 2015: 78.0% 2015 2016: 83.3% 2016 2017: 89.2% 2017 2018: 95.6% 2018 2019: 95.5% 2019 2020: 100.0% 2020 2021: 94.1% 2021 2022: 98.2% 2022 2023: 92.7% 2023 2024: 96.3% 2024 2025: 36.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008372464.9%
2009836375.9%
2010705477.1%
2011655280.0%
2012575291.2%
2013816479.0%
2014585086.2%
2015413278.0%
2016484083.3%
2017373389.2%
2018454395.6%
2019444295.5%
20207777100.0%
2021171694.1%
2022565598.2%
2023413892.7%
2024545296.3%
2025722636.1%
20262700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,010 0.2% 38.4% 58.0% 1.7%
Action 2 233 0.4% 34.8% 60.9% 2.1%
Action 3 46 0.0% 28.3% 60.9% 4.3%
Action 4 11 0.0% 36.4% 54.5% 0.0%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 188 office actions
All years 0.2% 3 of 1,302 office actions
Change -0.2 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%
1.1%
1.3%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
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

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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