Examiner Unsu Jung

Grant ratio: 30.0% (31st percentile in Art Unit 1641 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.29. Most common rejection type: §103.

Potentially inactive Last office action in data: May 2026
Grant ratio 30.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.29
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
80893
Primary art unit
1641
Work group
1640
Technology center
3700
Applications
240
Granted applications
72

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 43.3% 2.25
Group 222 43.5% 1.94
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.39 574 office actions across 240 applications
Applications with office actions 98.8% 237 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 1.3%
1 OA 84 35.0%
2 OAs 69 28.8%
3 OAs 27 11.3%
4 OAs 36 15.0%
5+ OAs 21 8.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 17.3% 2008 2009: 41.7% 2009 2010: 46.3% 2010 2011: 92.3% 2011 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 14.3% 2013 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 0.0% 2016 2017: 0.0% 2017 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200852917.3%
2009602541.7%
2010542546.3%
2011131292.3%
2012500.0%
20137114.3%
2014700.0%
20151600.0%
20161800.0%
2017300.0%
2026500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 237 0.4% 5.5% 73.0% 5.1%
Action 2 153 0.7% 3.9% 78.4% 7.8%
Action 3 84 0.0% 1.2% 82.1% 10.7%
Action 4 57 1.8% 3.5% 82.5% 7.0%
Action 5 21 9.5% 4.8% 81.0% 0.0%
Action 6 11 9.1% 0.0% 72.7% 18.2%
Action 7 8 12.5% 0.0% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 14.3% 1 of 7 office actions
All years 1.2% 7 of 574 office actions
Change +13.1 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%
0.0%
1.1%
3.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
4.7%
5.6%
0.0%
0.0%
14.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 13. Merits outcomes: 9 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
23.1% 3/13 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
30.8% 4/13 decisions
Median appeal duration
25.4 months
New grounds of rejection
2
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 20, 2016 12/785,225 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103
Nov. 23, 2016 12/219,609 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Sep. 30, 2016 12/387,452 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 22, 2016 12/972,669 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Jul. 11, 2016 12/600,875 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jan. 21, 2016 11/967,788 Affirmed New ground of rejection N/A
Dec. 29, 2015 11/880,146 Affirmed N/A
Dec. 18, 2015 12/546,013 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 29, 2012 11/040,240 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 25, 2011 10/341,526 Reversed §103
Nov. 3, 2010 11/008,384 Reversed §103
Mar. 16, 2010 11/188,535 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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