Examiner Ishrat Rashid

Grant ratio: 46.2% (21st percentile in Art Unit 2459 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.12. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: July 2026
Grant ratio 46.2%
Average office actions / grant 3.12
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
90427
Primary art unit
2459
Work group
2450
Technology center
2400
Applications
225
Granted applications
104
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5372
Supervisor
Tonia L Dollinger
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4170

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 15 43.7% 2.80
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 3.11 702 office actions across 226 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 226 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 46 20.4%
2 OAs 67 29.6%
3 OAs 32 14.2%
4 OAs 36 15.9%
5+ OAs 45 19.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 21.4% 2016 2017: 13.3% 2017 2018: 27.8% 2018 2019: 52.4% 2019 2020: 77.3% 2020 2021: 83.3% 2021 2022: 85.0% 2022 2023: 65.0% 2023 2024: 91.3% 2024 2025: 20.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2014800.0%
2015400.0%
201614321.4%
201715213.3%
201818527.8%
2019211152.4%
2020221777.3%
2021121083.3%
2022201785.0%
2023201365.0%
2024232191.3%
202524520.8%
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 226 0.0% 12.4% 84.1% 2.2%
Action 2 180 0.6% 3.3% 92.2% 1.7%
Action 3 113 0.0% 1.8% 97.3% 0.9%
Action 4 81 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 45 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 27 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 15 6.7% 0.0% 93.3% 0.0%
Action 8 8 12.5% 0.0% 87.5% 0.0%
Action 9 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 170 office actions
All years 0.4% 3 of 702 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
1.7%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.3%
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: 6. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 2/6 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 2/6 decisions
Median appeal duration
16.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 29, 2022 15/338,506 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jul. 20, 2022 15/834,134 Reversed §103
Dec. 24, 2020 14/624,560 Reversed §103
Mar. 26, 2020 14/143,499 Affirmed §103
May. 30, 2019 13/645,823 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jun. 12, 2018 13/455,506 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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