Examiner Srirama Channavajjala

Grant ratio: 68.7% (66th percentile in Art Unit 2157 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.39. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 68.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.39
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
74683
Primary art unit
2157
Work group
2150
Technology center
2100
Applications
725
Granted applications
498
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4108
Supervisor
Neveen Abel-Jalil
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4074

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 17 63.5% 2.71
Group 119 59.3% 2.64
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.40 1,740 office actions across 725 applications
Applications with office actions 99.2% 719 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 6 0.8%
1 OA 261 36.0%
2 OAs 234 32.3%
3 OAs 77 10.6%
4 OAs 78 10.8%
5+ OAs 69 9.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 62.5% 2008 2009: 83.3% 2009 2010: 33.3% 2010 2011: 82.8% 2011 2012: 80.7% 2012 2013: 80.4% 2013 2014: 68.2% 2014 2015: 52.9% 2015 2016: 63.4% 2016 2017: 72.3% 2017 2018: 88.2% 2018 2019: 57.1% 2019 2020: 76.6% 2020 2021: 80.4% 2021 2022: 74.5% 2022 2023: 86.4% 2023 2024: 82.4% 2024 2025: 38.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20088562.5%
2009121083.3%
20103133.3%
2011292482.8%
2012574680.7%
2013463780.4%
2014443068.2%
2015341852.9%
2016412663.4%
2017473472.3%
2018343088.2%
2019422457.1%
2020473676.6%
2021514180.4%
2022473574.5%
2023443886.4%
2024514282.4%
2025552138.2%
20263300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 719 1.0% 28.5% 68.0% 0.6%
Action 2 458 2.0% 15.7% 79.5% 0.4%
Action 3 224 0.4% 12.1% 83.0% 0.4%
Action 4 147 0.0% 11.6% 85.7% 0.7%
Action 5 69 0.0% 5.8% 88.4% 0.0%
Action 6 50 0.0% 10.0% 88.0% 0.0%
Action 7 31 3.2% 9.7% 83.9% 0.0%
Action 8 17 5.9% 5.9% 88.2% 0.0%
Action 9 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.2% 3 of 249 office actions
All years 1.1% 19 of 1,740 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%
5.3%
2.7%
3.2%
0.8%
2014: Alice
1.6%
0.0%
0.7%
0.9%
1.2%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
5.1%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 41. Merits outcomes: 13 affirmed, 11 affirmed in part, and 17 reversed.

Full reversal rate
41.5% 17/41 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
68.3% 28/41 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.2 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 3, 2025 17/306,548 Reversed §103
Jan. 10, 2025 14/561,729 Reversed §103 · §112
Sep. 26, 2024 16/838,830 Affirmed New ground of rejection §101 · §103 · §112
Sep. 5, 2024 17/015,065 Reversed §103
Sep. 3, 2024 17/015,071 Reversed §103
May. 29, 2024 17/015,028 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Dec. 20, 2023 16/797,835 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Sep. 29, 2022 15/722,900 Reversed §103
Jun. 11, 2019 13/890,030 Reversed §101 · §102 · §103
Jul. 23, 2018 14/270,117 Reversed §101 · §112
Jul. 3, 2018 13/459,390 Reversed §103
Apr. 19, 2018 14/480,334 Affirmed §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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