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Know your examiner's refusal rate

938 active examiners · 2.2M substantive office actions on record

Live examplen = 21,493 applications

A senior examiner

Law Office M70·Examining since 1991Active

17%of examined apps drew a substantive refusal

Last 2 yrs · n = 3,392 examined · fleet 23% · −6pp

Refusal grounds · independent rates, don't sum to 100%

§2(d) confusion66%fleet 64% · +2pp
Descriptive, surname & geo §2(e)30%fleet 30% · ±<1pp
Other substantive10%fleet 14% · −4pp
01 / 04

Will I draw a refusal?

Start with the odds: the recent refusal rate on examined applications, split by ground, each rate benchmarked against the active fleet.

02 / 04

How hard is the path?

One score against the active fleet: how hard a refusal from this examiner is to overcome. Weighted toward what happens after the refusal; refusal frequency counts least.

03 / 04

Where does a §2(d) end up?

The §2(d) record in three stages: whether the initial refusal escalates, whether a pressed Final is ultimately withdrawn, and how appeals resolve.

04 / 04

Softening, or hardening?

Refusal rate by year, with the fleet as the reference line. The profile reads the direction for you.

Live examplen = 21,493 applications

A senior examiner

Law Office M70·Examining since 1991Active
01 / 04

Will I draw a refusal?

Start with the odds: the recent refusal rate on examined applications, split by ground, each rate benchmarked against the active fleet.


17%of examined apps drew a substantive refusal

Last 2 yrs · n = 3,392 examined · fleet 23% · −6pp

Refusal grounds · independent rates, don't sum to 100%

§2(d) confusion66%fleet 64% · +2pp
Descriptive, surname & geo §2(e)30%fleet 30% · ±<1pp
Other substantive10%fleet 14% · −4pp
02 / 04

How hard is the path?

One score against the active fleet: how hard a refusal from this examiner is to overcome. Weighted toward what happens after the refusal; refusal frequency counts least.


7/10

Medium

More difficult than 60% of active examiners.

41%
Escalates to Final
n = 2,758 merits-resolved refusals
62%
Withdrawn when contested
n = 2,941 contested refusals
03 / 04

Where does a §2(d) end up?

The §2(d) record in three stages: whether the initial refusal escalates, whether a pressed Final is ultimately withdrawn, and how appeals resolve.


Initial · Final · Appeal

38%

of merits-resolved §2(d) refusals escalated to a Final.

fleet 39% · n = 1,950 merits-resolved §2(d)s

66%

of pressed §2(d) Finals were ultimately withdrawn.

fleet 70% · n = 388 pressed and resolved

58%

of resolved appeals ended with the refusal coming off.

fleet 64% · n = 341 resolved appeals

The Final figure displays only at n ≥ 25 pressed and resolved; below the gate the profile says so instead of guessing.

04 / 04

Softening, or hardening?

Refusal rate by year, with the fleet as the reference line. The profile reads the direction for you.


Refusal rate by year

Easing, gently: down about 7 points from 2022 to 2025.

Substantive refusals · per-year n · dashed line = fleet career average

The demo

Three minutes, end to end.

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The docket

Your docket does the watching.

Connect with the email on your USPTO filings and every pending application lands on one board, staged by what happens next. Response windows and Statement of Use deadlines run on their statutory clocks, with the examiner's record one click from every row. When something moves, you get an email.

Your docket · stage board

2Before the first actionnewest assigned Aug 14
3Response window opensoonest due ~Aug 28
1Statement of Use duesoonest due ~Feb 3, 2027
6With the examinerlatest filing Aug 6

Response window open

· 3

An office action is outstanding and the statutory response clock is running.

HALCYON HARBOR
Final Office action · May 28
§2(d)3-month window from May 28 · response due ~Aug 28
difficulty 8/10
PENNANT & PROOF
Office action · Jul 9
§2(e)3-month window from Jul 9 · response due ~Oct 9
difficulty 3/10
QUILLFEATHER
Office action · Apr 16
§2(d)extension filed · response due ~Oct 16
difficulty 6/10

Illustrative rows. The live board runs eight stages over your real applications, with the examiner named and linked on every row.

The gap

A case list isn't a strategy.

Other tools give you an examiner's registration rate and a list of cases. CrystalMark tells you whether your client can still reach publication, and what the record says about each barrier in the way.

The margin

Stop quoting responses blind.

A substantive office-action response is a flat quote, and the examiner decides whether it stays one round or becomes three. On a flat fee, that variance comes out of your margin, not the client's.

Big shops read the refusal before they quote. CrystalMark lets you read the examiner too: how often their refusals hold per response round, how many rounds a refused application runs. Price the response like you've seen this examiner's refusals play out before. Statistically, you have.

What you get

One subscription.
Every active examiner.

The tour above is one profile. A subscription runs the same instruments on every active examiner, refreshed daily, with the sample behind every rate and the fleet beside it.

Timing & rounds

Median wait from filing to a first office action, and the average response rounds a refused application runs. Queue time and examiner behavior, kept separate.

Examiner alerts

Watch a case and get the events USPTO never emails, like a cited registration cancelled or expired while your refusal sits.

Firm notes

Your firm's own read on an examiner, private to your firm, kept beside the numbers.

The methodology, public

Every stat's formula, denominator, and publish gate, on one page anyone can read.

The §2(d) detail report

Which barriers give way, and how.

Enter your examiner and the cited reg numbers off your refusal. We return the read from our corpus. Your case never needs to be in our system.

The reg you were flagged on comes first when it has the sample; a field-level read by the application's class is the fallback when that reg is too sparse, always with the sample size and which level it came from.

Hours of TSDR digging, in one screen.

Live output · the example examiner's most-cited registrations

PARENT'S CHOICEReg. 3,493,7782 of 8 cited applications overcame the §2(d)

Examiner maintained the refusal on 8 of 8 contested.

EARLY CONNECTIONSReg. 3,465,2748 of 8 cited applications overcame the §2(d)

Examiner maintained the refusal on 1 of 8 contested.

RSP RYAN SEACREST PRODUCTIONSReg. 3,642,5636 of 6 cited applications overcame the §2(d)

Examiner maintained the refusal on 0 of 6 contested.

The full leaderboard is live. Open it on the example profile →

The green metric is "reached approval after the §2(d)," never "the reg was withdrawn."

The appeal read

What happens if you appeal.

Everyone quotes the same folklore number: nine appeals in ten, affirmed. It counts only the appeals that reached a decision. Counted from the notice of appeal, the record reads differently.

~90%

the folklore: §2(d) refusals affirmed on appeal.

True, but only of appeals the Board decided.

~15%

of resolved appeals ever reach a Board merits decision.

The other 85% resolve before the Board rules on anything.

64%

of resolved appeals end with the refusal coming off.

Usually the examiner withdrawing the refusal, at a median 2 months vs ~10 to a decision.

The full appeal record, year by year →

Career counts · all-timeLive example
3,626
First-Action §2(d)
754
Final-Action §2(d)
343
TTAB appeals
7
TTAB reversals

All-time totals, kept separate from the recent-window rates you respond against.

The record · case by caseThe TTAB ledger
MERIDIAN OAK§2(d)
Refusal withdrawn3 mo
COPPER KILN§2(d)
Reversed11 mo
ATLAS & IVY
Affirmed10 mo
WREN HOLLOW§2(d)
Pending

Honest proof

Every figure traces to the public USPTO record.
Verify it yourself.

We're new (est. 2026), so we don't ask you to trust a quote. Each number is computed from the public file history and shown with its sample size, and the headline rates are benchmarked against the active fleet.

01

Built on public record

Every figure is computed from the public USPTO file-wrapper history: attorney↔examiner office actions and TTAB cases. Nothing private.

02

Every number is checkable

The §2(d) barrier rows open to the underlying applications, every serial with its response route and outcome, and every rate names its sample.

03

Thin samples stay unpublished

Every published rate names its sample. Below the gate we withhold the rate rather than fake precision: the profile reads "Building" with the raw count instead.

04

Active-fleet benchmarks

"More difficult than 70% of active examiners" is measured against the examiners taking cases today. An all-time average would flatter the number.

Your client's mark can still
reach publication.

See the record that got there with this examiner.