Examiner Jenna N Chandhok

Grant ratio: 30.4% (53rd percentile in Art Unit 1789 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.48. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 30.4%
Average office actions / grant 3.48
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
94839
Primary art unit
1789
Work group
1780
Technology center
1700
Applications
296
Granted applications
90
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5780

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 23.4% 3.00
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 3.09 916 office actions across 296 applications
Applications with office actions 97.3% 288 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 8 2.7%
1 OA 65 22.0%
2 OAs 65 22.0%
3 OAs 55 18.6%
4 OAs 43 14.5%
5+ OAs 60 20.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2019: 0.0% 2019 2020: 16.7% 2020 2021: 18.5% 2021 2022: 32.0% 2022 2023: 48.4% 2023 2024: 58.5% 2024 2025: 43.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2019200.0%
202018316.7%
202127518.5%
202225832.0%
2023311548.4%
2024533158.5%
2025652843.1%
20267500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 288 0.0% 5.6% 92.0% 1.0%
Action 2 223 0.4% 5.4% 83.9% 9.9%
Action 3 158 0.0% 3.8% 86.7% 9.5%
Action 4 103 0.0% 2.9% 86.4% 10.7%
Action 5 60 0.0% 1.7% 93.3% 5.0%
Action 6 39 0.0% 2.6% 84.6% 12.8%
Action 7 23 0.0% 4.3% 87.0% 4.3%
Action 8 14 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 457 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 916 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

2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.7%
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: 5. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
20.0% 1/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 4, 2024 15/953,200 Affirmed §103
May. 2, 2024 16/086,773 Affirmed §103
Aug. 17, 2023 15/762,620 Affirmed §103 · §112
May. 3, 2022 15/823,601 Reversed §103
Mar. 10, 2022 16/652,720 Affirmed in part §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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