Examiner Dmitriy Yemelyanov

Grant ratio: 63.1% (50th percentile in Art Unit 2891 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.07. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 63.1%
Average office actions / grant 2.07
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87644
Primary art unit
2891
Work group
2890
Technology center
2800
Applications
607
Granted applications
383
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7920
Supervisor
Matthew Landau
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1731

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 55.9% 1.85
Group 288 53.7% 1.76
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.15 1,307 office actions across 607 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 606 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.2%
1 OA 257 42.3%
2 OAs 189 31.1%
3 OAs 62 10.2%
4 OAs 55 9.1%
5+ OAs 43 7.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 100.0% 2009 2011: 33.3% 2011 2012: 38.7% 2012 2013: 60.0% 2013 2014: 57.8% 2014 2015: 77.5% 2015 2016: 75.6% 2016 2017: 81.8% 2017 2018: 82.1% 2018 2019: 85.1% 2019 2020: 78.9% 2020 2021: 77.4% 2021 2022: 89.7% 2022 2023: 75.0% 2023 2024: 79.4% 2024 2025: 45.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200911100.0%
201121733.3%
2012311238.7%
2013352160.0%
2014452657.8%
2015403177.5%
2016413175.6%
2017443681.8%
2018393282.1%
2019474085.1%
2020191578.9%
2021312477.4%
2022393589.7%
2023322475.0%
2024342779.4%
2025462145.7%
20266200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 606 0.0% 9.2% 88.8% 1.3%
Action 2 349 0.3% 8.0% 89.7% 1.7%
Action 3 160 0.0% 6.3% 90.6% 3.1%
Action 4 98 0.0% 3.1% 93.9% 3.1%
Action 5 43 0.0% 0.0% 93.0% 7.0%
Action 6 26 0.0% 0.0% 88.5% 11.5%
Action 7 13 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 241 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 1,307 office actions
Change -0.1 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%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
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

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 30, 2018 12/777,615 Affirmed §103 · §112 · §120
Jul. 28, 2017 13/874,150 Affirmed in part §102 · §103 · §112
Feb. 22, 2017 13/471,609 Affirmed §102 · §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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