Examiner Monjour Rahim

Grant ratio: 78.7% (58th percentile in Art Unit 2436 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.95. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 78.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.95
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
84750
Primary art unit
2436
Work group
2430
Technology center
2400
Applications
936
Granted applications
737
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3890

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 61.4% 2.11
Group 233 61.7% 1.99
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.94 1,813 office actions across 936 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 936 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 459 49.0%
2 OAs 257 27.5%
3 OAs 108 11.5%
4 OAs 72 7.7%
5+ OAs 40 4.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 63.3% 2008 2009: 69.6% 2009 2010: 55.6% 2010 2011: 52.6% 2011 2012: 77.8% 2012 2013: 89.1% 2013 2014: 89.2% 2014 2015: 90.2% 2015 2016: 85.2% 2016 2017: 91.7% 2017 2018: 85.7% 2018 2019: 95.9% 2019 2020: 86.4% 2020 2021: 96.0% 2021 2022: 92.7% 2022 2023: 92.4% 2023 2024: 85.9% 2024 2025: 57.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008493163.3%
2009563969.6%
2010181055.6%
2011191052.6%
2012272177.8%
2013464189.1%
2014655889.2%
2015615590.2%
2016615285.2%
2017363391.7%
2018706085.7%
2019494795.9%
2020443886.4%
2021504896.0%
2022555192.7%
2023666192.4%
2024645585.9%
2025472757.4%
20265300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 936 9.8% 4.0% 38.4% 4.6%
Action 2 477 1.5% 4.6% 55.6% 1.0%
Action 3 220 0.5% 1.4% 63.2% 0.9%
Action 4 112 1.8% 0.9% 67.9% 0.0%
Action 5 40 2.5% 0.0% 65.0% 0.0%
Action 6 16 0.0% 0.0% 62.5% 0.0%
Action 7 5 0.0% 20.0% 60.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 4.5% 13 of 287 office actions
All years 5.7% 103 of 1,813 office actions
Change -1.2 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%
1.5%
1.6%
15.9%
2.2%
8.3%
3.5%
2014: Alice
6.0%
6.8%
8.8%
9.6%
10.4%
2019: PEG
9.8%
1.2%
3.4%
5.1%
4.2%
2024: AI examples
6.0%
2025: August memo
2.4%
5.2%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 13. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
53.8% 7/13 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
53.8% 7/13 decisions
Median appeal duration
29.7 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 1, 2021 15/233,708 Reversed §103
Mar. 24, 2020 14/643,802 Reversed §103
Sep. 25, 2019 14/968,178 Reversed §103
Sep. 25, 2017 13/567,301 Affirmed §103
Mar. 20, 2017 13/611,022 Affirmed §103
Mar. 10, 2015 12/022,770 Affirmed N/A
Feb. 27, 2015 11/097,144 Reversed N/A
Jan. 6, 2014 11/112,938 Reversed §103
Sep. 4, 2013 10/978,618 Affirmed N/A
Jul. 9, 2013 11/077,637 Affirmed N/A
Mar. 20, 2013 11/194,931 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §103
Oct. 9, 2012 11/044,959 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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