Examiner Jeffrey R Larsen

Grant ratio: 39.3% (46th percentile in Art Unit 3643 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.85. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 39.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.85
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
92639
Primary art unit
3643
Work group
3640
Technology center
3600
Applications
428
Granted applications
168
Examiner phone
(313) 446-6578

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 29 41.9% 2.10
Group 281 52.9% 1.75
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.46 1,082 office actions across 439 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 439 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 156 35.5%
2 OAs 119 27.1%
3 OAs 50 11.4%
4 OAs 71 16.2%
5+ OAs 43 9.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 2.9% 2016 2017: 23.8% 2017 2018: 31.7% 2018 2019: 42.2% 2019 2020: 54.2% 2020 2021: 46.9% 2021 2022: 52.5% 2022 2023: 42.9% 2023 2024: 60.7% 2024 2025: 100.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2015500.0%
20163512.9%
2017421023.8%
2018411331.7%
2019642742.2%
2020241354.2%
2021492346.9%
2022402152.5%
2023562442.9%
2024563460.7%
202522100.0%
20261400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 439 0.9% 3.2% 87.5% 6.4%
Action 2 283 0.4% 2.8% 93.6% 2.1%
Action 3 164 0.0% 4.3% 91.5% 3.7%
Action 4 114 0.0% 3.5% 93.9% 0.9%
Action 5 43 0.0% 11.6% 81.4% 2.3%
Action 6 23 0.0% 13.0% 87.0% 0.0%
Action 7 8 0.0% 0.0% 87.5% 12.5%
Action 8 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.2% 2 of 164 office actions
All years 0.5% 5 of 1,082 office actions
Change +0.8 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
1.8%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.8%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 15. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
46.7% 7/15 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
60.0% 9/15 decisions
Median appeal duration
10.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 30, 2025 17/538,242 Reversed N/A
Jun. 25, 2025 17/174,015 Affirmed §103 · §112
Aug. 17, 2023 15/641,387 Affirmed §103
Dec. 15, 2022 16/846,613 Affirmed §103
Aug. 31, 2022 16/418,596 Affirmed in part §103
Sep. 28, 2021 15/425,940 Reversed §103
Apr. 29, 2021 15/992,740 Affirmed §103 · §112
Mar. 18, 2021 14/440,829 Reversed §103
Mar. 15, 2021 15/820,618 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 15, 2020 14/590,352 Reversed §103
Sep. 15, 2020 15/016,460 Reversed §103
Jul. 2, 2020 14/345,383 Affirmed in part §102 · §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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