Examiner Ramesh B Patel

Grant ratio: 90.5% (96th percentile in Art Unit 2127 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.04. Most common rejection type: §102.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: January 2025
Grant ratio 90.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.04
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
73748
Primary art unit
2127
Work group
2120
Technology center
2100
Applications
936
Granted applications
847

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 29 47.2% 1.95
Group 333 45.2% 1.98
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.04 976 office actions across 937 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 937 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 903 96.4%
2 OAs 31 3.3%
3 OAs 1 0.1%
4 OAs 2 0.2%
5+ OAs 0 0.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 83.3% 2009 2010: 100.0% 2010 2011: 100.0% 2011 2012: 80.6% 2012 2013: 94.2% 2013 2014: 91.5% 2014 2015: 80.0% 2015 2016: 86.9% 2016 2017: 87.7% 2017 2018: 94.6% 2018 2019: 88.4% 2019 2020: 96.4% 2020 2021: 96.2% 2021 2022: 96.7% 2022 2023: 87.7% 2023 2024: 79.6% 2024 2025: 100.0% 2025

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2009726083.3%
20104646100.0%
20115858100.0%
2012312580.6%
2013696594.2%
2014595491.5%
2015504080.0%
2016615386.9%
2017655787.7%
2018747094.6%
2019696188.4%
2020565496.4%
2021525096.2%
2022615996.7%
2023575087.7%
2024544379.6%
202522100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 937 8.2% 60.5% 4.7% 10.7%
Action 2 34 0.0% 73.5% 8.8% 0.0%
Action 3 3 0.0% 33.3% 33.3% 0.0%
Action 4 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 19.7% 15 of 76 office actions
All years 7.9% 77 of 976 office actions
Change +11.8 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%
2.7%
1.9%
3.2%
2.7%
4.1%
2014: Alice
6.7%
1.8%
1.6%
2.9%
2.7%
2019: PEG
0.0%
3.6%
13.5%
37.7%
24.6%
2024: AI examples
20.4%
2025: August memo
25.0%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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