Examiner Anugeetha Kunjithapatham

Grant ratio: 47.5% (24th percentile in Art Unit 2165 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.91. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 47.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.91
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
94971
Primary art unit
2165
Work group
2160
Technology center
2100
Applications
99
Granted applications
47
Examiner phone
(408) 918-7510
Supervisor
Aleksandr Kerzhner
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1760

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 30 55.5% 2.59
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 2.75 272 office actions across 99 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 99 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 26 26.3%
2 OAs 22 22.2%
3 OAs 21 21.2%
4 OAs 18 18.2%
5+ OAs 12 12.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 50.0% 2020 2021: 52.6% 2021 2022: 31.3% 2022 2023: 100.0% 2023 2024: 71.4% 2024 2025: 35.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202010550.0%
2021191052.6%
202216531.3%
202377100.0%
2024211571.4%
202514535.7%
20261200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 99 3.0% 2.0% 90.9% 2.0%
Action 2 73 1.4% 1.4% 95.9% 0.0%
Action 3 51 2.0% 0.0% 98.0% 0.0%
Action 4 30 10.0% 0.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 5 12 8.3% 0.0% 75.0% 16.7%
Action 6 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 7.0% 7 of 100 office actions
All years 3.3% 9 of 272 office actions
Change +3.7 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%
2.8%
8.8%
2024: AI examples
2.4%
2025: August memo
7.1%
14.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
6.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 9, 2024 15/857,061 Affirmed §103
Aug. 30, 2023 16/618,094 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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