Examiner Tuan C To

Grant ratio: 81.6% (94th percentile in Art Unit 3662 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.67. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 81.6%
Average office actions / grant 1.67
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
77502
Primary art unit
3662
Work group
3660
Technology center
3600
Applications
1,022
Granted applications
834
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6985

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 50 55.2% 1.96
Group 454 54.1% 1.86
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.70 1,734 office actions across 1,022 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 1,019 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.3%
1 OA 616 60.3%
2 OAs 246 24.1%
3 OAs 78 7.6%
4 OAs 40 3.9%
5+ OAs 39 3.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 66.7% 2008 2009: 85.4% 2009 2010: 80.8% 2010 2011: 75.4% 2011 2012: 80.7% 2012 2013: 75.4% 2013 2014: 89.7% 2014 2015: 94.1% 2015 2016: 93.9% 2016 2017: 93.2% 2017 2018: 80.9% 2018 2019: 90.3% 2019 2020: 89.8% 2020 2021: 96.2% 2021 2022: 96.6% 2022 2023: 93.2% 2023 2024: 93.8% 2024 2025: 58.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008755066.7%
2009827085.4%
2010524280.8%
2011614675.4%
2012574680.7%
2013654975.4%
2014393589.7%
2015343294.1%
2016494693.9%
2017595593.2%
2018685580.9%
2019625690.3%
2020494489.8%
2021535196.2%
2022585696.6%
2023444193.2%
2024323093.8%
2025513058.8%
20263200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,019 8.1% 6.9% 65.3% 10.9%
Action 2 403 7.7% 4.7% 72.7% 9.2%
Action 3 157 4.5% 5.1% 80.9% 6.4%
Action 4 79 11.4% 2.5% 78.5% 5.1%
Action 5 39 5.1% 5.1% 87.2% 0.0%
Action 6 19 10.5% 5.3% 68.4% 5.3%
Action 7 10 10.0% 0.0% 70.0% 0.0%
Action 8 6 33.3% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 10.5% 16 of 153 office actions
All years 7.9% 137 of 1,734 office actions
Change +2.6 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

1.2%
4.2%
1.5%
3.5%
1.4%
7.1%
2014: Alice
21.2%
17.5%
13.2%
16.8%
8.8%
2019: PEG
5.8%
12.5%
13.1%
13.8%
9.6%
2024: AI examples
10.8%
2025: August memo
15.5%
5.7%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 19. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 5 affirmed in part, and 12 reversed.

Full reversal rate
63.2% 12/19 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
89.5% 17/19 decisions
Median appeal duration
27.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 21, 2020 15/275,624 Affirmed in part §103
Oct. 21, 2020 15/276,096 Affirmed in part §103
Sep. 18, 2020 15/498,027 Affirmed in part §103
May. 20, 2020 15/499,306 Reversed §103
Sep. 24, 2015 12/886,660 Reversed N/A
Apr. 16, 2015 12/518,108 Reversed §103
Apr. 10, 2015 12/578,405 Reversed N/A
Nov. 25, 2014 11/854,344 Affirmed §103
Sep. 18, 2014 11/580,771 Reversed N/A
Mar. 28, 2014 12/019,313 Reversed N/A
Dec. 19, 2013 10/945,373 Affirmed in part N/A
Jan. 29, 2013 11/415,272 Reversed §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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