Examiner Sharmin Chowdhury

Grant ratio: 73.5% (70th percentile in Art Unit 2416 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.16. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: September 2026
Grant ratio 73.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.16
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
93485
Primary art unit
2416
Work group
2410
Technology center
2400
Applications
359
Granted applications
264
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6419
Supervisor
Noel Beharry
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5630

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 54.9% 2.01
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 2.09 749 office actions across 359 applications
Applications with office actions 98.9% 355 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 1.1%
1 OA 142 39.6%
2 OAs 122 34.0%
3 OAs 40 11.1%
4 OAs 29 8.1%
5+ OAs 22 6.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2017: 100.0% 2017 2018: 67.7% 2018 2019: 85.7% 2019 2020: 88.9% 2020 2021: 96.8% 2021 2022: 90.9% 2022 2023: 91.2% 2023 2024: 88.0% 2024 2025: 44.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20171616100.0%
2018312167.7%
2019282485.7%
2020363288.9%
2021313096.8%
2022555090.9%
2023343191.2%
2024504488.0%
2025361644.4%
20264200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 355 0.0% 3.1% 92.7% 1.7%
Action 2 213 0.0% 1.4% 96.7% 1.9%
Action 3 91 1.1% 0.0% 97.8% 1.1%
Action 4 51 0.0% 0.0% 96.1% 3.9%
Action 5 22 0.0% 0.0% 95.5% 4.5%
Action 6 11 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.5% 1 of 220 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 749 office actions
Change +0.3 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%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
1.8%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 1. Merits outcomes: 0 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 1/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
1.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 23, 2021 16/322,707 Affirmed in part §103 · §112 · §120

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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