Examiner Afua Bamfoaa Boateng

Grant ratio: 12.3% (9th percentile in Art Unit 1617 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.93. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 12.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.93
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
98665
Primary art unit
1617
Work group
1610
Technology center
1600
Applications
114
Granted applications
14
Examiner phone
(703) 756-1358
Supervisor
Ali Soroush
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-9925

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 43.1% 2.30
Group 217 31.1% 2.42
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.20 251 office actions across 114 applications
Applications with office actions 96.5% 110 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 3.5%
1 OA 40 35.1%
2 OAs 36 31.6%
3 OAs 16 14.0%
4 OAs 9 7.9%
5+ OAs 9 7.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2023: 0.0% 2023 2024: 25.0% 2024 2025: 19.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2023100.0%
202424625.0%
202541819.5%
20264800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 110 0.0% 5.5% 90.9% 0.9%
Action 2 70 0.0% 4.3% 82.9% 4.3%
Action 3 34 0.0% 2.9% 85.3% 0.0%
Action 4 18 0.0% 0.0% 77.8% 5.6%
Action 5 9 0.0% 11.1% 66.7% 11.1%
Action 6 6 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 251 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 251 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%
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

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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