Examiner Mohammad Kabir

Grant ratio: 58.9% (36th percentile in Art Unit 2198 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.78. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 58.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.78
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87720
Primary art unit
2198
Work group
2190
Technology center
2100
Applications
450
Granted applications
265
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1341
Supervisor
Sam Sough
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6799

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 12 38.1% 1.90
Group 238 52.6% 2.03
Tech Center 1,781 52.8% 2.19
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.83 1,274 office actions across 450 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 449 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.2%
1 OA 134 29.8%
2 OAs 132 29.3%
3 OAs 50 11.1%
4 OAs 55 12.2%
5+ OAs 78 17.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 71.4% 2011 2012: 89.6% 2012 2013: 76.3% 2013 2014: 69.6% 2014 2015: 46.2% 2015 2016: 60.0% 2016 2017: 48.1% 2017 2018: 62.1% 2018 2019: 64.7% 2019 2020: 53.1% 2020 2021: 66.7% 2021 2022: 54.5% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 71.0% 2024 2025: 28.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2011282071.4%
2012484389.6%
2013382976.3%
2014463269.6%
201513646.2%
201615960.0%
2017271348.1%
2018291862.1%
2019171164.7%
2020321753.1%
2021181266.7%
2022221254.5%
202318950.0%
2024312271.0%
2025421228.6%
20262600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 449 2.0% 4.7% 90.2% 2.2%
Action 2 315 1.9% 4.1% 92.1% 1.6%
Action 3 183 2.7% 3.3% 92.3% 1.1%
Action 4 133 4.5% 0.8% 94.7% 0.0%
Action 5 78 2.6% 0.0% 97.4% 0.0%
Action 6 51 3.9% 0.0% 96.1% 0.0%
Action 7 25 4.0% 0.0% 92.0% 0.0%
Action 8 16 6.3% 0.0% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 9 9 0.0% 0.0% 88.9% 0.0%
Action 10 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 10.2% 19 of 186 office actions
All years 2.5% 32 of 1,274 office actions
Change +7.7 pts Percentage points

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

By year

0.0%
1.2%
2.8%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
3.1%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
5.7%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
7.0%
2025: August memo
17.9%
6.9%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 19. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 12 reversed.

Full reversal rate
63.2% 12/19 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
68.4% 13/19 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 11, 2025 17/922,955 Reversed §103
Dec. 22, 2023 15/715,476 Affirmed §103
Dec. 14, 2023 16/380,371 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Dec. 13, 2023 16/816,521 Reversed §102
Aug. 29, 2023 16/135,210 Reversed §102 · §103
Mar. 31, 2023 16/132,698 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
Jan. 30, 2023 15/666,191 Affirmed §103
Aug. 15, 2022 16/409,810 Reversed §102 · §103
Jun. 23, 2022 15/844,480 Reversed §102 · §103
May. 13, 2022 15/850,377 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jan. 7, 2022 14/751,194 Reversed §103
Sep. 24, 2021 15/851,742 Reversed §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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