Examiner Mark Consilvio

Grant ratio: 54.6% (32nd percentile in Art Unit 2872 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.72. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: June 2013
Grant ratio 54.6%
Average office actions / grant 1.72
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
80472
Primary art unit
2872
Work group
2870
Technology center
2800
Applications
238
Granted applications
130

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 102 61.9% 1.70
Group 351 61.2% 1.71
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.82 432 office actions across 238 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 238 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 122 51.3%
2 OAs 76 31.9%
3 OAs 23 9.7%
4 OAs 8 3.4%
5+ OAs 9 3.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 40.9% 2008 2009: 47.7% 2009 2010: 57.8% 2010 2011: 72.0% 2011 2012: 50.0% 2012 2013: 71.4% 2013

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008441840.9%
2009442147.7%
2010452657.8%
2011503672.0%
2012482450.0%
20137571.4%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 238 1.7% 12.2% 74.4% 7.6%
Action 2 116 0.0% 6.9% 83.6% 5.2%
Action 3 40 0.0% 5.0% 87.5% 2.5%
Action 4 17 0.0% 5.9% 94.1% 0.0%
Action 5 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 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 N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.9% 4 of 432 office actions
Change N/A 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%
0.0%
3.1%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
28.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 13, 2013 12/140,067 Affirmed §103
Oct. 29, 2012 11/005,720 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Aug. 11, 2011 11/031,769 Affirmed §102 · §103
May. 19, 2011 10/969,357 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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