Examiner Rasha Fayed

Grant ratio: 51.3% (10th percentile in Art Unit 2413 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.98. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 51.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.98
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89660
Primary art unit
2413
Work group
2410
Technology center
2400
Applications
421
Granted applications
216
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3804

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 21 53.7% 2.44
Group 168 50.9% 1.94
Tech Center 1,771 57.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.06 1,302 office actions across 425 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 425 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 128 30.1%
2 OAs 99 23.3%
3 OAs 51 12.0%
4 OAs 57 13.4%
5+ OAs 90 21.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 80.0% 2013 2014: 59.3% 2014 2015: 53.8% 2015 2016: 54.8% 2016 2017: 66.7% 2017 2018: 61.8% 2018 2019: 62.9% 2019 2020: 61.1% 2020 2021: 57.1% 2021 2022: 61.3% 2022 2023: 47.6% 2023 2024: 67.6% 2024 2025: 26.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2013252080.0%
2014271659.3%
2015261453.8%
2016311754.8%
2017362466.7%
2018342161.8%
2019352262.9%
2020181161.1%
2021211257.1%
2022311961.3%
2023211047.6%
2024372567.6%
202519526.3%
20266000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 425 1.6% 8.2% 84.7% 0.9%
Action 2 297 1.7% 5.7% 90.6% 1.0%
Action 3 198 0.5% 1.5% 96.0% 1.0%
Action 4 147 0.7% 2.0% 94.6% 1.4%
Action 5 90 2.2% 1.1% 95.6% 1.1%
Action 6 61 0.0% 0.0% 96.7% 3.3%
Action 7 31 3.2% 3.2% 93.5% 0.0%
Action 8 24 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 12 0.0% 0.0% 91.7% 0.0%
Action 10 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 259 office actions
All years 1.3% 17 of 1,302 office actions
Change -1.3 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
2.5%
1.1%
3.8%
4.2%
1.0%
2019: PEG
3.1%
1.0%
0.0%
1.0%
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: 18. Merits outcomes: 9 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
38.9% 7/18 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 9/18 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 17, 2024 16/101,074 Affirmed in part §103
Nov. 22, 2023 17/671,765 Reversed §103
Oct. 30, 2023 16/337,612 Reversed §103
Jul. 19, 2023 15/548,143 Affirmed §103
Sep. 28, 2022 16/960,430 Reversed §103
Dec. 29, 2021 15/604,971 Reversed §103
Oct. 5, 2021 14/921,511 Affirmed §103
Mar. 2, 2021 14/233,821 Reversed §103
Jul. 15, 2020 14/221,371 Affirmed §101 · §103
May. 22, 2020 14/634,842 Affirmed in part §103
Apr. 23, 2020 14/116,955 Reversed §103
May. 31, 2019 14/580,837 Affirmed N/A

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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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