Examiner Vincent Idiake

Grant ratio: 53.7% (92nd percentile in Art Unit 3685 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.20. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 53.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.20
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
94925
Primary art unit
3685
Work group
3680
Technology center
3600
Applications
190
Granted applications
102
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1284

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 57 34.4% 3.08
Group 285 28.7% 2.80
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.36 448 office actions across 190 applications
Applications with office actions 97.4% 185 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 5 2.6%
1 OA 63 33.2%
2 OAs 52 27.4%
3 OAs 34 17.9%
4 OAs 17 8.9%
5+ OAs 19 10.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2019: 0.0% 2019 2020: 71.4% 2020 2021: 52.6% 2021 2022: 80.6% 2022 2023: 93.5% 2023 2024: 55.6% 2024 2025: 31.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2019100.0%
2020141071.4%
2021191052.6%
2022362980.6%
2023312993.5%
2024271555.6%
202529931.0%
20263300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 185 7.6% 8.1% 63.2% 11.4%
Action 2 122 4.9% 5.7% 75.4% 8.2%
Action 3 70 1.4% 2.9% 91.4% 4.3%
Action 4 36 0.0% 2.8% 91.7% 5.6%
Action 5 19 5.3% 5.3% 84.2% 5.3%
Action 6 12 8.3% 0.0% 91.7% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%
Action 8 1 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 4.0% 8 of 202 office actions
All years 5.4% 24 of 448 office actions
Change -1.4 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
4.5%
11.8%
8.5%
2024: AI examples
2.7%
2025: August memo
5.9%
2.6%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
10.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jan. 13, 2023 16/176,843 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
Mar. 23, 2022 15/291,053 Affirmed §101 · §112
Nov. 24, 2021 16/056,812 Reversed §103 · §112

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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