Examiner Fahimeh Mohammadi

Grant ratio: 66.9% (60th percentile in Art Unit 2439 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.49. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 66.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.49
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87598
Primary art unit
2439
Work group
2430
Technology center
2400
Applications
329
Granted applications
220
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7857
Supervisor
Luu Pham
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-5002

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 59.9% 2.50
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 2.40 792 office actions across 330 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 330 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 112 33.9%
2 OAs 98 29.7%
3 OAs 52 15.8%
4 OAs 44 13.3%
5+ OAs 24 7.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 56.0% 2011 2012: 80.0% 2012 2013: 76.5% 2013 2014: 90.9% 2014 2015: 68.8% 2015 2016: 42.9% 2016 2017: 87.5% 2017 2018: 56.3% 2018 2019: 72.0% 2019 2020: 88.0% 2020 2021: 95.2% 2021 2022: 85.0% 2022 2023: 75.0% 2023 2024: 73.3% 2024 2025: 50.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2011251456.0%
2012252080.0%
2013171376.5%
2014222090.9%
2015161168.8%
201614642.9%
2017161487.5%
201816956.3%
2019251872.0%
2020252288.0%
2021212095.2%
2022201785.0%
2023201575.0%
2024151173.3%
2025201050.0%
20263200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 330 0.0% 1.2% 97.6% 0.3%
Action 2 218 0.5% 0.5% 98.6% 0.0%
Action 3 120 0.0% 0.8% 97.5% 0.8%
Action 4 68 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 24 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 15 6.7% 0.0% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 7 8 12.5% 0.0% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 157 office actions
All years 0.4% 3 of 792 office actions
Change -0.4 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%
2.2%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
4.7%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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: 8. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 6 reversed.

Full reversal rate
75.0% 6/8 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
87.5% 7/8 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.8 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 8, 2025 16/446,063 Reversed §103
Feb. 8, 2023 16/288,453 Reversed §103
Jan. 4, 2023 15/881,953 Reversed §103
Sep. 12, 2022 15/666,771 Reversed §103
Aug. 25, 2022 15/528,121 Affirmed §103
Jan. 31, 2017 12/555,978 Affirmed in part §101 · §102 · §103
May. 15, 2015 11/795,089 Reversed New ground of rejection N/A
Mar. 25, 2015 11/795,346 Reversed 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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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