Examiner Golam Mahmud

Grant ratio: 49.4% (9th percentile in Art Unit 2458 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.08. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 49.4%
Average office actions / grant 3.08
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
91782
Primary art unit
2458
Work group
2450
Technology center
2400
Applications
316
Granted applications
156
Examiner phone
(571) 270-0385
Supervisor
Umar Cheema
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-3037

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 53.4% 2.52
Group 210 57.4% 2.41
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.14 1,002 office actions across 319 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 319 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 68 21.3%
2 OAs 78 24.5%
3 OAs 55 17.2%
4 OAs 45 14.1%
5+ OAs 73 22.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2015: 42.9% 2015 2016: 57.9% 2016 2017: 36.8% 2017 2018: 54.1% 2018 2019: 52.0% 2019 2020: 50.0% 2020 2021: 82.6% 2021 2022: 53.8% 2022 2023: 78.3% 2023 2024: 75.9% 2024 2025: 41.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201514642.9%
2016191157.9%
201719736.8%
2018372054.1%
2019251352.0%
2020241250.0%
2021231982.6%
2022261453.8%
2023231878.3%
2024292275.9%
2025341441.2%
20264300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 319 0.9% 15.7% 80.3% 0.3%
Action 2 251 0.8% 9.2% 89.6% 0.0%
Action 3 173 0.6% 6.4% 92.5% 0.6%
Action 4 118 0.0% 4.2% 94.9% 0.8%
Action 5 73 1.4% 1.4% 94.5% 1.4%
Action 6 39 0.0% 5.1% 94.9% 0.0%
Action 7 14 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 4 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 0.0% 0 of 296 office actions
All years 0.7% 7 of 1,002 office actions
Change -0.7 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%
1.4%
1.2%
0.0%
1.9%
2019: PEG
2.7%
0.0%
1.3%
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: 4 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
20.0% 1/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 14, 2025 17/555,180 Affirmed in part §103
Mar. 12, 2024 16/478,512 Affirmed §103
Jul. 28, 2021 13/967,643 Affirmed §103
Apr. 21, 2021 13/929,188 Affirmed §103
Apr. 13, 2020 13/894,869 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §112

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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