Examiner Hares Jami

Grant ratio: 69.3% (37th percentile in Art Unit 2162 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.28. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 69.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.28
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
82494
Primary art unit
2162
Work group
2160
Technology center
2100
Applications
730
Granted applications
506
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1291
Supervisor
Amy Ng
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1698

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 70.0% 2.07
Group 196 60.2% 2.52
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 1,753 office actions across 730 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 727 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.4%
1 OA 257 35.2%
2 OAs 213 29.2%
3 OAs 106 14.5%
4 OAs 73 10.0%
5+ OAs 78 10.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 70.8% 2008 2009: 60.6% 2009 2010: 61.5% 2010 2011: 71.1% 2011 2012: 78.0% 2012 2013: 84.5% 2013 2014: 89.8% 2014 2015: 67.4% 2015 2016: 76.7% 2016 2017: 69.7% 2017 2018: 74.4% 2018 2019: 68.1% 2019 2020: 81.6% 2020 2021: 73.5% 2021 2022: 70.0% 2022 2023: 75.8% 2023 2024: 58.5% 2024 2025: 45.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008241770.8%
2009332060.6%
2010392461.5%
2011382771.1%
2012503978.0%
2013584984.5%
2014494489.8%
2015463167.4%
2016433376.7%
2017332369.7%
2018433274.4%
2019473268.1%
2020383181.6%
2021342573.5%
2022302170.0%
2023332575.8%
2024412458.5%
202520945.0%
20263100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 727 6.3% 3.4% 84.2% 1.9%
Action 2 470 8.5% 3.2% 84.5% 1.7%
Action 3 257 8.6% 1.2% 86.4% 2.7%
Action 4 151 11.3% 1.3% 85.4% 2.6%
Action 5 78 11.5% 1.3% 84.6% 1.3%
Action 6 44 11.4% 0.0% 86.4% 2.3%
Action 7 14 7.1% 7.1% 78.6% 0.0%
Action 8 8 0.0% 12.5% 75.0% 12.5%
Action 9 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 27.8% 58 of 209 office actions
All years 8.0% 140 of 1,753 office actions
Change +19.8 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

9.7%
5.5%
0.0%
1.0%
6.1%
5.9%
2014: Alice
0.9%
1.0%
3.6%
17.4%
12.9%
2019: PEG
3.0%
2.5%
1.5%
0.0%
13.6%
2024: AI examples
27.5%
2025: August memo
32.7%
28.9%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 24. Merits outcomes: 15 affirmed, 5 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
13.0% 3/23 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
34.8% 8/23 decisions
Median appeal duration
23.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 27, 2026 17/844,381 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jan. 7, 2026 16/789,989 Affirmed §101
Sep. 1, 2023 16/448,245 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
May. 25, 2022 15/605,373 Affirmed §103
Jan. 3, 2022 15/142,984 Reversed §103
May. 4, 2021 15/146,971 Affirmed §103
Nov. 25, 2019 13/641,901 Affirmed §101 · §103
Aug. 12, 2019 14/699,395 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jun. 7, 2019 13/755,767 Affirmed §103
Sep. 11, 2018 13/469,519 Affirmed §103
Mar. 27, 2018 13/437,443 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Mar. 28, 2017 13/478,991 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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