Examiner Gurpreet Kaur

Grant ratio: 58.4% (50th percentile in Art Unit 1759 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.25. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 58.4%
Average office actions / grant 2.25
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86249
Primary art unit
1759
Work group
1750
Technology center
1700
Applications
811
Granted applications
474
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7895
Supervisor
Curtis Mayes
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1234

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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 2.16 1,753 office actions across 811 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 809 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.2%
1 OA 333 41.1%
2 OAs 240 29.6%
3 OAs 111 13.7%
4 OAs 67 8.3%
5+ OAs 58 7.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 50.0% 2008 2009: 25.6% 2009 2010: 47.4% 2010 2011: 60.9% 2011 2012: 58.7% 2012 2013: 47.5% 2013 2014: 58.5% 2014 2015: 64.9% 2015 2016: 63.0% 2016 2017: 75.4% 2017 2018: 63.5% 2018 2019: 78.6% 2019 2020: 70.4% 2020 2021: 83.3% 2021 2022: 72.4% 2022 2023: 70.4% 2023 2024: 78.4% 2024 2025: 34.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20082150.0%
2009391025.6%
2010381847.4%
2011462860.9%
2012462758.7%
2013401947.5%
2014412458.5%
2015372464.9%
2016734663.0%
2017574375.4%
2018523363.5%
2019564478.6%
2020543870.4%
2021363083.3%
2022292172.4%
2023271970.4%
2024372978.4%
2025582034.5%
20264300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 809 2.0% 7.7% 75.5% 5.3%
Action 2 476 1.5% 4.8% 80.7% 4.8%
Action 3 236 0.4% 4.7% 82.2% 6.8%
Action 4 125 0.8% 2.4% 85.6% 7.2%
Action 5 58 0.0% 0.0% 84.5% 8.6%
Action 6 27 0.0% 7.4% 81.5% 3.7%
Action 7 13 0.0% 7.7% 69.2% 7.7%
Action 8 7 0.0% 14.3% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.2% 5 of 225 office actions
All years 1.4% 25 of 1,753 office actions
Change +0.8 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%
0.8%
0.0%
4.2%
2.9%
2014: Alice
1.2%
2.8%
1.9%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.8%
1.0%
1.2%
3.6%
2.0%
2024: AI examples
6.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
2.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 11. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
27.3% 3/11 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
45.5% 5/11 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.3 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 29, 2025 17/515,098 Reversed N/A
Mar. 8, 2024 16/318,026 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103
Sep. 21, 2023 16/847,225 Affirmed in part §103
Jan. 30, 2023 15/568,397 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Jun. 10, 2022 16/200,337 Affirmed §103
Aug. 30, 2021 15/140,129 Affirmed §103
Jan. 28, 2020 13/557,372 Reversed §103
Sep. 24, 2018 14/532,364 Affirmed N/A
Jun. 30, 2014 11/140,499 Affirmed N/A
Jun. 5, 2014 11/460,188 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 16, 2013 11/304,065 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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