Examiner Tameem Siddiquee

Grant ratio: 43.0% (13th percentile in Art Unit 2116 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.75. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 43.0%
Average office actions / grant 2.75
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
94777
Primary art unit
2116
Work group
2110
Technology center
2100
Applications
272
Granted applications
117
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1627
Supervisor
Kamini Shah
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2279

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 35 64.4% 1.81
Group 214 64.2% 1.69
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.46 669 office actions across 272 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 271 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.4%
1 OA 104 38.2%
2 OAs 71 26.1%
3 OAs 37 13.6%
4 OAs 23 8.5%
5+ OAs 36 13.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 9.1% 2020 2021: 28.6% 2021 2022: 61.1% 2022 2023: 61.9% 2023 2024: 72.3% 2024 2025: 43.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20202229.1%
202121628.6%
2022362261.1%
2023422661.9%
2024473472.3%
2025622743.5%
20264200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 271 1.1% 3.3% 93.4% 0.7%
Action 2 167 6.6% 8.4% 77.8% 6.0%
Action 3 96 2.1% 6.3% 84.4% 4.2%
Action 4 59 1.7% 5.1% 89.8% 3.4%
Action 5 36 11.1% 0.0% 83.3% 5.6%
Action 6 25 12.0% 0.0% 80.0% 8.0%
Action 7 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 5.8% 16 of 275 office actions
All years 3.7% 25 of 669 office actions
Change +2.1 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%
6.9%
4.3%
2024: AI examples
7.8%
2025: August memo
6.9%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
33.3% 2/6 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 4/6 decisions
Median appeal duration
8.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 29, 2025 16/857,424 Affirmed §103
Sep. 26, 2025 17/125,079 Affirmed in part §103
Dec. 30, 2024 16/423,701 Affirmed §103
Feb. 21, 2024 16/833,000 Reversed §103
Aug. 28, 2023 16/588,611 Affirmed in part §103 · §120
Mar. 31, 2023 16/317,464 Reversed §103

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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