Examiner Tasnima Matin

Grant ratio: 82.7% (77th percentile in Art Unit 2135 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.72. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 82.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.72
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
90553
Primary art unit
2135
Work group
2130
Technology center
2100
Applications
446
Granted applications
369
Examiner phone
(571) 272-8785

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 18 68.3% 2.01
Group 138 68.8% 2.08
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.73 771 office actions across 446 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 446 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 243 54.5%
2 OAs 119 26.7%
3 OAs 56 12.6%
4 OAs 21 4.7%
5+ OAs 7 1.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 52.4% 2014 2015: 88.9% 2015 2016: 79.3% 2016 2017: 91.4% 2017 2018: 86.4% 2018 2019: 92.9% 2019 2020: 90.0% 2020 2021: 90.9% 2021 2022: 92.1% 2022 2023: 100.0% 2023 2024: 93.5% 2024 2025: 56.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2014211152.4%
2015272488.9%
2016292379.3%
2017353291.4%
2018443886.4%
2019423992.9%
2020403690.0%
2021333090.9%
2022383592.1%
20233737100.0%
2024464393.5%
2025372156.8%
20261700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 446 0.7% 7.8% 81.4% 5.2%
Action 2 203 0.5% 4.4% 89.7% 2.5%
Action 3 84 0.0% 1.2% 91.7% 4.8%
Action 4 28 0.0% 3.6% 85.7% 7.1%
Action 5 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%
Action 6 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 142 office actions
All years 0.5% 4 of 771 office actions
Change -0.5 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
3.5%
2019: PEG
3.2%
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: 4. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
10.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 24, 2018 13/692,830 Affirmed §103
May. 23, 2018 13/861,267 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Apr. 16, 2018 13/861,312 Affirmed §103
Dec. 9, 2016 13/473,778 Affirmed in part §102 · §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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