Examiner Giovanni Astacio-Oquendo

Grant ratio: 81.7% (71st percentile in Art Unit 2867 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.60. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 81.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.60
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
88495
Primary art unit
2867
Work group
2860
Technology center
2800
Applications
748
Granted applications
611
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5724
Supervisor
Huy Phan
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7924

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 13 72.1% 1.63
Group 131 67.2% 1.82
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.60 1,199 office actions across 748 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 746 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.3%
1 OA 480 64.2%
2 OAs 171 22.9%
3 OAs 47 6.3%
4 OAs 22 2.9%
5+ OAs 26 3.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 25.0% 2012 2013: 53.2% 2013 2014: 74.1% 2014 2015: 57.7% 2015 2016: 76.0% 2016 2017: 96.1% 2017 2018: 94.9% 2018 2019: 93.4% 2019 2020: 98.2% 2020 2021: 100.0% 2021 2022: 98.0% 2022 2023: 97.6% 2023 2024: 93.9% 2024 2025: 55.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20124125.0%
2013472553.2%
2014584374.1%
2015261557.7%
2016503876.0%
2017767396.1%
2018999494.9%
2019615793.4%
2020575698.2%
20215757100.0%
2022515098.0%
2023414097.6%
2024333193.9%
2025563155.4%
20263200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 746 19.0% 6.3% 38.3% 31.1%
Action 2 266 7.9% 3.4% 53.4% 32.3%
Action 3 95 2.1% 1.1% 69.5% 25.3%
Action 4 48 2.1% 0.0% 83.3% 12.5%
Action 5 26 0.0% 0.0% 57.7% 42.3%
Action 6 12 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 7 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 40.0% 56 of 140 office actions
All years 13.8% 166 of 1,199 office actions
Change +26.2 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%
2.6%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
6.6%
8.8%
21.5%
2019: PEG
17.2%
27.3%
3.2%
36.2%
34.1%
2024: AI examples
47.1%
2025: August memo
49.1%
20.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 19, 2017 13/238,418 Reversed §103
Sep. 20, 2016 12/906,256 Affirmed §103 · §112

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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