Examiner Atta Khan

Grant ratio: 76.2% (97th percentile in Art Unit 2449 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.98. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 76.2%
Average office actions / grant 1.98
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91336
Primary art unit
2449
Work group
2440
Technology center
2400
Applications
345
Granted applications
263
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7364
Supervisor
Vivek Srivastava
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7304

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 19 53.9% 2.37
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 1.94 668 office actions across 345 applications
Applications with office actions 99.4% 343 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.6%
1 OA 163 47.2%
2 OAs 99 28.7%
3 OAs 39 11.3%
4 OAs 26 7.5%
5+ OAs 16 4.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 44.4% 2014 2015: 81.3% 2015 2016: 64.3% 2016 2017: 77.4% 2017 2018: 90.5% 2018 2019: 83.3% 2019 2020: 96.7% 2020 2021: 85.7% 2021 2022: 81.5% 2022 2023: 95.8% 2023 2024: 82.9% 2024 2025: 45.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20149444.4%
2015161381.3%
2016281864.3%
2017312477.4%
2018423890.5%
2019363083.3%
2020302996.7%
2021211885.7%
2022272281.5%
2023242395.8%
2024352982.9%
2025331545.5%
20261300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 343 5.8% 7.6% 79.3% 1.7%
Action 2 180 3.3% 3.3% 90.0% 1.7%
Action 3 81 1.2% 1.2% 96.3% 0.0%
Action 4 42 0.0% 2.4% 95.2% 0.0%
Action 5 16 0.0% 0.0% 93.8% 6.3%
Action 6 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 13.2% 18 of 136 office actions
All years 4.0% 27 of 668 office actions
Change +9.2 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
2.5%
3.4%
3.5%
14.9%
2024: AI examples
1.7%
2025: August memo
32.6%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 2/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 28, 2020 14/578,579 Reversed §103
Feb. 11, 2020 14/410,338 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112 · §120
Aug. 16, 2019 14/458,731 Reversed §103
Feb. 8, 2018 14/087,558 Affirmed §101 · §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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