Examiner Hana Lee

Grant ratio: 43.3% (26th percentile in Art Unit 3662 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.32. Most common rejection type: §103.

Potentially inactive Last office action in data: June 2026
Grant ratio 43.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.32
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
95709
Primary art unit
3662
Work group
3660
Technology center
3600
Applications
180
Granted applications
78

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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 2.43 438 office actions across 180 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 180 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 55 30.6%
2 OAs 56 31.1%
3 OAs 25 13.9%
4 OAs 30 16.7%
5+ OAs 14 7.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 0.0% 2020 2021: 58.3% 2021 2022: 58.6% 2022 2023: 71.4% 2023 2024: 62.1% 2024 2025: 24.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2020100.0%
2021241458.3%
2022291758.6%
2023282071.4%
2024291862.1%
202537924.3%
20263200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 180 2.8% 4.4% 83.3% 5.6%
Action 2 125 1.6% 3.2% 91.2% 2.4%
Action 3 69 1.4% 1.4% 95.7% 1.4%
Action 4 44 2.3% 0.0% 95.5% 0.0%
Action 5 14 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%
Action 6 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.1% 5 of 243 office actions
All years 2.1% 9 of 438 office actions
Change +0.0 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%
2.8%
0.0%
2.8%
2024: AI examples
3.6%
2025: August memo
2.2%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 1. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
8.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 25, 2025 17/062,168 Affirmed N/A

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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