Examiner Jason Boeckmann

Grant ratio: 45.2% (30th percentile in Art Unit 3752 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.09. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 45.2%
Average office actions / grant 3.09
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
80999
Primary art unit
3752
Work group
3750
Technology center
3700
Applications
1,055
Granted applications
477
Examiner phone
(571) 272-2708
Supervisor
Arthur Hall
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1814

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 35 47.0% 1.98
Group 162 53.4% 1.75
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.78 2,932 office actions across 1,055 applications
Applications with office actions 99.1% 1,046 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 9 0.9%
1 OA 284 26.9%
2 OAs 312 29.6%
3 OAs 143 13.6%
4 OAs 134 12.7%
5+ OAs 173 16.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 14.9% 2008 2009: 37.7% 2009 2010: 35.4% 2010 2011: 31.5% 2011 2012: 47.7% 2012 2013: 50.8% 2013 2014: 53.7% 2014 2015: 66.1% 2015 2016: 56.1% 2016 2017: 59.6% 2017 2018: 56.0% 2018 2019: 57.1% 2019 2020: 64.6% 2020 2021: 39.4% 2021 2022: 59.6% 2022 2023: 47.1% 2023 2024: 62.5% 2024 2025: 23.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200847714.9%
2009692637.7%
2010652335.4%
2011732331.5%
2012653147.7%
2013633250.8%
2014673653.7%
2015563766.1%
2016663756.1%
2017523159.6%
2018502856.0%
2019563257.1%
2020483164.6%
2021331339.4%
2022472859.6%
2023512447.1%
2024483062.5%
202534823.5%
20266500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,046 0.1% 12.4% 74.1% 3.8%
Action 2 762 0.3% 9.6% 79.1% 3.4%
Action 3 450 0.0% 8.7% 81.3% 3.3%
Action 4 307 0.0% 9.8% 81.1% 3.6%
Action 5 173 0.0% 12.1% 77.5% 4.0%
Action 6 102 0.0% 13.7% 79.4% 2.0%
Action 7 54 0.0% 11.1% 81.5% 3.7%
Action 8 25 0.0% 8.0% 76.0% 4.0%
Action 9 12 0.0% 16.7% 66.7% 8.3%
Action 10 1 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 369 office actions
All years 0.1% 3 of 2,932 office actions
Change -0.1 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%
0.0%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 43. Merits outcomes: 13 affirmed, 6 affirmed in part, and 24 reversed.

Full reversal rate
55.8% 24/43 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
69.8% 30/43 decisions
Median appeal duration
22.8 months
New grounds of rejection
3
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 10, 2025 17/109,219 Affirmed §103
Aug. 27, 2025 16/630,537 Affirmed N/A
Jul. 28, 2025 17/314,652 Reversed §103
Jul. 2, 2025 17/004,726 Affirmed in part §103
Mar. 13, 2025 16/624,608 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §103
Jul. 28, 2023 16/309,843 Affirmed §103
Jul. 21, 2023 16/793,830 Reversed §103
Mar. 1, 2023 16/466,716 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112
Jul. 28, 2022 15/576,327 Reversed N/A
Mar. 9, 2022 15/953,728 Reversed §103
May. 3, 2021 15/759,263 Reversed §103
May. 3, 2021 14/670,136 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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