Examiner Kishor Mayekar

Grant ratio: 62.5% (64th percentile in Art Unit 1759 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.59. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: December 2020
Grant ratio 62.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.59
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
69166
Primary art unit
1759
Work group
1750
Technology center
1700
Applications
738
Granted applications
461

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 9 53.4% 1.85
Group 103 31.8% 1.92
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.70 1,270 office actions across 748 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 748 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 472 63.1%
2 OAs 144 19.3%
3 OAs 69 9.2%
4 OAs 40 5.3%
5+ OAs 23 3.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 64.3% 2008 2009: 44.9% 2009 2010: 51.7% 2010 2011: 56.9% 2011 2012: 70.8% 2012 2013: 64.0% 2013 2014: 63.5% 2014 2015: 66.7% 2015 2016: 64.8% 2016 2017: 66.7% 2017 2018: 68.4% 2018 2019: 65.9% 2019 2020: 72.4% 2020

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008563664.3%
2009783544.9%
2010603151.7%
2011653756.9%
2012654670.8%
2013503264.0%
2014523363.5%
2015392666.7%
2016543564.8%
2017604066.7%
2018573968.4%
2019442965.9%
2020584272.4%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 748 0.8% 3.2% 67.9% 16.2%
Action 2 276 0.4% 2.2% 83.3% 9.4%
Action 3 132 0.0% 1.5% 91.7% 4.5%
Action 4 63 0.0% 1.6% 96.8% 1.6%
Action 5 23 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 14 0.0% 0.0% 92.9% 7.1%
Action 7 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 8 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 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% 7 of 1,270 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%
0.8%
1.2%
1.7%
0.0%
1.7%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
1.1%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
17.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 6, 2021 14/123,174 Reversed §103
Sep. 29, 2020 15/277,095 Reversed §102 · §103
Sep. 5, 2018 14/932,642 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jul. 18, 2016 11/751,328 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 22, 2015 12/344,666 Affirmed N/A
Sep. 22, 2015 12/344,807 Affirmed N/A
Jan. 4, 2012 10/810,983 Affirmed 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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