Examiner Alexander Satanovsky

Grant ratio: 46.6% (27th percentile in Art Unit 2857 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.91. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 46.6%
Average office actions / grant 2.91
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87423
Primary art unit
2857
Work group
2850
Technology center
2800
Applications
547
Granted applications
255
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5819
Supervisor
Uzma Alam
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3995

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 37 39.4% 1.89
Group 380 61.0% 1.65
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.80 1,531 office actions across 547 applications
Applications with office actions 96.3% 527 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 20 3.7%
1 OA 124 22.7%
2 OAs 168 30.7%
3 OAs 89 16.3%
4 OAs 79 14.4%
5+ OAs 67 12.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 100.0% 2010 2011: 26.7% 2011 2012: 64.9% 2012 2013: 46.8% 2013 2014: 59.6% 2014 2015: 56.4% 2015 2016: 30.4% 2016 2017: 37.5% 2017 2018: 46.4% 2018 2019: 63.6% 2019 2020: 51.7% 2020 2021: 70.0% 2021 2022: 56.7% 2022 2023: 53.1% 2023 2024: 69.2% 2024 2025: 38.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201011100.0%
201115426.7%
2012372464.9%
2013472246.8%
2014523159.6%
2015392256.4%
201623730.4%
20178337.5%
2018281346.4%
201911763.6%
2020291551.7%
2021503570.0%
2022301756.7%
2023321753.1%
2024261869.2%
2025501938.0%
20266900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 527 12.1% 0.2% 74.8% 3.6%
Action 2 403 21.8% 1.0% 68.0% 4.0%
Action 3 235 23.4% 0.4% 61.7% 6.4%
Action 4 146 30.8% 0.7% 57.5% 7.5%
Action 5 67 29.9% 1.5% 59.7% 4.5%
Action 6 46 30.4% 0.0% 63.0% 0.0%
Action 7 32 28.1% 0.0% 50.0% 9.4%
Action 8 24 25.0% 4.2% 58.3% 0.0%
Action 9 15 13.3% 0.0% 66.7% 13.3%
Action 10 13 7.7% 0.0% 69.2% 7.7%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 28.9% 81 of 280 office actions
All years 20.2% 309 of 1,531 office actions
Change +8.7 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%
2.0%
1.6%
2.1%
2014: Alice
11.9%
21.6%
33.7%
37.1%
43.5%
2019: PEG
13.3%
11.4%
30.2%
35.6%
23.6%
2024: AI examples
24.0%
2025: August memo
28.1%
36.9%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 24. Merits outcomes: 16 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
29.2% 7/24 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 8/24 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 7, 2025 18/511,216 Affirmed §101
Jul. 22, 2025 17/018,749 Reversed §103
Mar. 1, 2024 16/003,084 Affirmed §101 · §103
Feb. 10, 2023 16/229,824 Affirmed N/A
Oct. 13, 2022 14/214,600 Reversed N/A
Jun. 9, 2022 15/683,078 Affirmed §103
Feb. 4, 2022 15/760,033 Reversed §101
Jul. 23, 2021 15/437,409 Affirmed §103 · §112
May. 19, 2020 14/623,345 Affirmed §101 · §112
Dec. 30, 2019 12/679,619 Reversed §101
Oct. 3, 2018 13/747,295 Affirmed §101 · §112
Jul. 30, 2018 14/281,030 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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