Examiner Pritesh Darji

Grant ratio: 40.3% (30th percentile in Art Unit 1731 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.93. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: January 2015
Grant ratio 40.3%
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
85959
Primary art unit
1731
Work group
1730
Technology center
1700
Applications
186
Granted applications
75

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 32 48.9% 1.87
Group 191 48.8% 1.97
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.62 487 office actions across 186 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 186 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 52 28.0%
2 OAs 61 32.8%
3 OAs 16 8.6%
4 OAs 35 18.8%
5+ OAs 22 11.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 0.0% 2008 2009: 29.0% 2009 2010: 46.7% 2010 2011: 52.2% 2011 2012: 51.4% 2012 2013: 41.4% 2013 2014: 31.3% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008500.0%
200931929.0%
2010301446.7%
2011231252.2%
2012351851.4%
2013291241.4%
2014321031.3%
2015100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 186 1.1% 4.8% 87.6% 1.1%
Action 2 134 0.0% 4.5% 91.8% 0.0%
Action 3 73 1.4% 1.4% 91.8% 1.4%
Action 4 57 0.0% 3.5% 94.7% 0.0%
Action 5 22 0.0% 0.0% 95.5% 4.5%
Action 6 11 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.6% 3 of 487 office actions
Change N/A 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%
2.9%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
18.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 27, 2013 11/579,603 Reversed N/A

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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