Examiner Chrystina Zelaskiewicz

Grant ratio: 25.3% (53rd percentile in Art Unit 3621 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 4.05. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 25.3%
Average office actions / grant 4.05
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
84739
Primary art unit
3621
Work group
3620
Technology center
3600
Applications
443
Granted applications
112
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3940
Supervisor
Andrew Fischer
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6779

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 23.5% 3.54
Group 364 26.5% 2.85
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.50 1,551 office actions across 443 applications
Applications with office actions 99.1% 439 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 0.9%
1 OA 75 16.9%
2 OAs 104 23.5%
3 OAs 59 13.3%
4 OAs 97 21.9%
5+ OAs 104 23.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 8.7% 2008 2009: 34.6% 2009 2010: 43.8% 2010 2011: 42.1% 2011 2012: 23.1% 2012 2013: 17.6% 2013 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 16.2% 2016 2017: 18.8% 2017 2018: 7.7% 2018 2019: 17.9% 2019 2020: 41.4% 2020 2021: 66.7% 2021 2022: 57.1% 2022 2023: 53.3% 2023 2024: 42.9% 2024 2025: 2.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20082328.7%
200926934.6%
201016743.8%
201119842.1%
201213323.1%
201317317.6%
20141500.0%
20151700.0%
201637616.2%
201716318.8%
20181317.7%
201928517.9%
2020291241.4%
2021151066.7%
2022352057.1%
2023301653.3%
202414642.9%
20253712.7%
20264300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 439 1.4% 2.3% 55.1% 31.9%
Action 2 364 0.8% 4.4% 74.2% 12.6%
Action 3 260 4.2% 1.5% 71.5% 11.5%
Action 4 201 4.5% 0.5% 74.1% 11.4%
Action 5 104 4.8% 0.0% 69.2% 17.3%
Action 6 74 2.7% 2.7% 71.6% 13.5%
Action 7 41 9.8% 2.4% 65.9% 14.6%
Action 8 27 11.1% 0.0% 70.4% 7.4%
Action 9 21 0.0% 0.0% 57.1% 23.8%
Action 10 13 7.7% 0.0% 76.9% 7.7%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 4.1% 12 of 291 office actions
All years 2.8% 44 of 1,551 office actions
Change +1.3 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%
1.1%
4.3%
2.4%
0.0%
0.0%
4.2%
2014: Alice
1.6%
2.0%
8.3%
4.9%
3.4%
2019: PEG
6.7%
0.0%
0.0%
1.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
3.0%
2025: August memo
3.7%
9.8%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 30. Merits outcomes: 16 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 11 reversed.

Full reversal rate
36.7% 11/30 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
46.7% 14/30 decisions
Median appeal duration
21.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 5, 2026 17/335,302 Reversed §103 · §112
Dec. 7, 2020 12/421,903 Reversed §103
Dec. 23, 2019 11/311,758 Affirmed §101 · §103
Nov. 14, 2019 12/641,239 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Sep. 30, 2019 11/958,279 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jun. 25, 2019 12/684,634 Reversed §101 · §103
May. 3, 2019 11/880,598 Affirmed §101 · §112
Mar. 27, 2019 12/323,670 Reversed §101 · §103 · §112
Mar. 18, 2019 14/010,497 Reversed §101 · §103
Mar. 14, 2019 12/365,974 Affirmed in part §101 · §103 · §112
Jan. 28, 2019 11/958,291 Affirmed §101 · §112
Dec. 31, 2018 13/156,737 Reversed §101 · §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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