Examiner Babajide Demuren

Grant ratio: 69.9% (81st percentile in Art Unit 3633 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.92. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 69.9%
Average office actions / grant 1.92
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
85492
Primary art unit
3633
Work group
3630
Technology center
3600
Applications
1,085
Granted applications
758
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7017
Supervisor
Brian Glessner
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6754

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 50.3% 1.88
Group 184 50.7% 1.79
Tech Center 2,394 45.5% 2.12
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.85 2,008 office actions across 1,085 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 1,083 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.2%
1 OA 549 50.6%
2 OAs 314 28.9%
3 OAs 117 10.8%
4 OAs 59 5.4%
5+ OAs 44 4.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 0.0% 2008 2009: 44.9% 2009 2010: 60.4% 2010 2011: 62.7% 2011 2012: 75.5% 2012 2013: 53.7% 2013 2014: 50.8% 2014 2015: 72.6% 2015 2016: 80.6% 2016 2017: 83.8% 2017 2018: 90.5% 2018 2019: 84.4% 2019 2020: 82.3% 2020 2021: 82.0% 2021 2022: 81.7% 2022 2023: 90.3% 2023 2024: 89.4% 2024 2025: 58.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008500.0%
2009693144.9%
2010533260.4%
2011674262.7%
2012534075.5%
2013542953.7%
2014593050.8%
2015624572.6%
2016675480.6%
2017746283.8%
2018746790.5%
2019645484.4%
2020625182.3%
2021615082.0%
2022604981.7%
2023625690.3%
2024474289.4%
2025412458.5%
20265100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,083 0.7% 11.4% 78.9% 6.5%
Action 2 534 0.2% 10.1% 82.6% 4.7%
Action 3 220 0.0% 8.6% 85.0% 4.5%
Action 4 103 1.0% 8.7% 85.4% 2.9%
Action 5 44 0.0% 9.1% 77.3% 6.8%
Action 6 19 0.0% 5.3% 78.9% 5.3%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.1% 2 of 189 office actions
All years 0.5% 10 of 2,008 office actions
Change +0.6 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
2019: PEG
1.0%
0.0%
1.1%
1.1%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.5%
2025: August memo
0.0%
1.8%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 8. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
37.5% 3/8 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
37.5% 3/8 decisions
Median appeal duration
25.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 26, 2023 16/718,477 Affirmed §103
May. 21, 2018 14/359,302 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §120
Dec. 30, 2016 13/097,177 Reversed §103
Dec. 19, 2016 13/949,073 Affirmed §102 · §103
Sep. 30, 2016 13/789,809 Reversed §102 · §103
Apr. 30, 2015 12/606,460 Reversed N/A
Dec. 11, 2014 12/420,902 Affirmed N/A
May. 28, 2013 11/803,638 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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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