Examiner Abdelbasst Talioua

Grant ratio: 37.0% (25th percentile in Art Unit 2442 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.75. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 37.0%
Average office actions / grant 3.75
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
94769
Primary art unit
2442
Work group
2440
Technology center
2400
Applications
154
Granted applications
57
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4061

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 26 40.5% 2.35
Group 208 56.0% 2.42
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.47 534 office actions across 154 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 154 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 22 14.3%
2 OAs 44 28.6%
3 OAs 17 11.0%
4 OAs 31 20.1%
5+ OAs 40 26.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2019: 50.0% 2019 2020: 60.0% 2020 2021: 57.1% 2021 2022: 40.0% 2022 2023: 52.4% 2023 2024: 72.4% 2024 2025: 10.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20192150.0%
202010660.0%
202114857.1%
202220840.0%
2023211152.4%
2024292172.4%
202520210.0%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 154 0.0% 6.5% 92.9% 0.6%
Action 2 132 0.0% 2.3% 97.7% 0.0%
Action 3 88 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 1.1%
Action 4 71 0.0% 1.4% 97.2% 1.4%
Action 5 40 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 29 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 14 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 224 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 534 office actions
Change 0.0 pts Percentage points

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

By year

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: 5. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
80.0% 4/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
80.0% 4/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.5 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 13, 2024 16/898,107 Reversed §103
Sep. 28, 2023 16/380,914 Reversed §103
Aug. 24, 2023 16/532,528 Reversed New ground of rejection §112
Jun. 1, 2023 16/263,791 Affirmed N/A
Mar. 9, 2023 16/364,027 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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