Examiner Dana Ivey

Grant ratio: 83.5% (75th percentile in Art Unit 3612 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.41. Most common rejection type: §102.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 83.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.41
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
80694
Primary art unit
3612
Work group
3610
Technology center
3600
Applications
817
Granted applications
682
Examiner phone
(313) 446-4896
Supervisor
Jelani Smith
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-3969

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 35 54.1% 1.37
Group 162 58.7% 1.45
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.45 1,193 office actions across 820 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 820 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 540 65.9%
2 OAs 207 25.2%
3 OAs 59 7.2%
4 OAs 8 1.0%
5+ OAs 6 0.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 87.5% 2012 2013: 91.2% 2013 2014: 87.1% 2014 2015: 89.7% 2015 2016: 90.0% 2016 2017: 87.5% 2017 2018: 96.8% 2018 2019: 89.6% 2019 2020: 94.0% 2020 2021: 94.4% 2021 2022: 96.8% 2022 2023: 84.1% 2023 2024: 80.0% 2024 2025: 17.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20128787.5%
2013575291.2%
2014706187.1%
2015585289.7%
2016807290.0%
2017726387.5%
2018626096.8%
2019776989.6%
2020676394.0%
2021545194.4%
2022636196.8%
2023443784.1%
2024352880.0%
202534617.6%
20263600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 820 0.6% 43.9% 35.0% 15.5%
Action 2 280 0.4% 34.3% 47.1% 12.5%
Action 3 73 0.0% 34.2% 56.2% 5.5%
Action 4 14 0.0% 35.7% 50.0% 14.3%
Action 5 6 0.0% 16.7% 50.0% 16.7%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.6% 3 of 190 office actions
All years 0.5% 6 of 1,193 office actions
Change +1.1 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
2.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
2024: AI examples
2.3%
2025: August memo
0.0%
2.2%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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