Examiner Krupa Shukla

Grant ratio: 11.0% (7th percentile in Art Unit 1787 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 4.58. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 11.0%
Average office actions / grant 4.58
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
90044
Primary art unit
1787
Work group
1780
Technology center
1700
Applications
516
Granted applications
57
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5384
Supervisor
Callie Shosho
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-1123

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 31.6% 3.26
Group 208 37.3% 2.71
Tech Center 1,792 44.3% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.34 1,722 office actions across 516 applications
Applications with office actions 97.3% 502 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 14 2.7%
1 OA 90 17.4%
2 OAs 125 24.2%
3 OAs 69 13.4%
4 OAs 98 19.0%
5+ OAs 120 23.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 0.0% 2013 2014: 4.4% 2014 2015: 3.3% 2015 2016: 13.5% 2016 2017: 4.0% 2017 2018: 20.0% 2018 2019: 11.8% 2019 2020: 16.3% 2020 2021: 22.9% 2021 2022: 15.4% 2022 2023: 22.0% 2023 2024: 20.0% 2024 2025: 4.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2012100.0%
20132500.0%
20144524.4%
20153013.3%
201637513.5%
20172514.0%
201830620.0%
201934411.8%
202043716.3%
202135822.9%
202226415.4%
202341922.0%
202440820.0%
20254224.8%
20266200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 502 0.2% 7.4% 79.1% 0.2%
Action 2 412 0.2% 6.1% 83.3% 1.0%
Action 3 287 0.0% 4.9% 82.9% 0.7%
Action 4 218 0.0% 2.8% 88.1% 0.9%
Action 5 120 0.0% 1.7% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 6 77 0.0% 2.6% 92.2% 1.3%
Action 7 45 0.0% 4.4% 84.4% 6.7%
Action 8 26 0.0% 3.8% 92.3% 3.8%
Action 9 12 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 402 office actions
All years 0.1% 2 of 1,722 office actions
Change -0.1 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%
2014: Alice
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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

Matched decisions: 39. Merits outcomes: 24 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 13 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 13/39 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
38.5% 15/39 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.4 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 28, 2026 18/041,558 Reversed §103
Feb. 10, 2026 17/786,568 Affirmed N/A
Nov. 13, 2025 17/250,267 Reversed §112
Oct. 16, 2025 17/854,665 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103
Oct. 14, 2025 17/105,038 Reversed §103
Nov. 8, 2024 15/765,775 Affirmed §103
Mar. 28, 2024 15/533,286 Affirmed §103
Jul. 10, 2023 16/164,880 Affirmed §103
Feb. 16, 2023 15/304,344 Reversed §103
Oct. 6, 2022 15/661,517 Affirmed N/A
Aug. 31, 2022 15/729,959 Reversed §103
Apr. 1, 2022 13/392,700 Affirmed §103 · §112

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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