Examiner Eyob Hagos

Grant ratio: 57.2% (47th percentile in Art Unit 2863 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.29. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 57.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.29
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
89043
Primary art unit
2863
Work group
2860
Technology center
2800
Applications
437
Granted applications
250
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3508

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 42 59.1% 1.74
Group 130 67.0% 1.82
Tech Center 2,428 61.6% 1.69
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.37 1,036 office actions across 437 applications
Applications with office actions 97.7% 427 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 10 2.3%
1 OA 158 36.2%
2 OAs 128 29.3%
3 OAs 54 12.4%
4 OAs 43 9.8%
5+ OAs 44 10.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 100.0% 2011 2012: 85.7% 2012 2013: 78.8% 2013 2014: 78.9% 2014 2015: 52.2% 2015 2016: 62.1% 2016 2017: 29.2% 2017 2018: 55.6% 2018 2019: 58.6% 2019 2020: 72.2% 2020 2021: 75.9% 2021 2022: 65.5% 2022 2023: 75.0% 2023 2024: 71.1% 2024 2025: 46.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201111100.0%
20127685.7%
2013332678.8%
2014191578.9%
2015231252.2%
2016291862.1%
201724729.2%
2018271555.6%
2019291758.6%
2020362672.2%
2021292275.9%
2022291965.5%
2023322475.0%
2024382771.1%
2025321546.9%
20264900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 427 10.5% 2.8% 82.2% 4.7%
Action 2 269 6.3% 0.7% 89.2% 3.3%
Action 3 141 4.3% 0.0% 93.6% 1.4%
Action 4 87 4.6% 0.0% 94.3% 1.1%
Action 5 44 0.0% 0.0% 95.5% 4.5%
Action 6 27 3.7% 0.0% 96.3% 0.0%
Action 7 15 13.3% 0.0% 86.7% 0.0%
Action 8 11 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 10.8% 24 of 222 office actions
All years 7.2% 75 of 1,036 office actions
Change +3.6 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%
8.0%
5.6%
2014: Alice
2.0%
3.5%
3.6%
7.4%
17.3%
2019: PEG
4.9%
4.0%
5.3%
10.1%
4.6%
2024: AI examples
9.8%
2025: August memo
7.8%
16.4%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 10. Merits outcomes: 7 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
20.0% 2/10 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
30.0% 3/10 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 17, 2025 18/338,818 Affirmed §103
Aug. 26, 2022 16/667,600 Affirmed §103
May. 12, 2022 15/581,234 Affirmed §103
Feb. 9, 2022 15/259,241 Reversed §103
Dec. 14, 2021 15/210,333 Reversed §103
Mar. 15, 2021 14/031,877 Affirmed in part N/A
Aug. 7, 2019 11/766,534 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Jul. 25, 2019 13/342,439 Affirmed §101 · §103
Dec. 29, 2017 13/733,753 Affirmed §103
Mar. 22, 2016 12/999,260 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 Oct. 9, 2026.

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