Examiner Adnan Baig

Grant ratio: 59.6% (25th percentile in Art Unit 2461 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.22. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 59.6%
Average office actions / grant 3.22
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86038
Primary art unit
2461
Work group
2460
Technology center
2400
Applications
624
Granted applications
372
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7511
Supervisor
Huy Vu
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3155

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 24 61.7% 2.26
Group 225 60.1% 2.07
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.05 1,903 office actions across 624 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 622 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.3%
1 OA 147 23.6%
2 OAs 154 24.7%
3 OAs 118 18.9%
4 OAs 82 13.1%
5+ OAs 121 19.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 0.0% 2008 2009: 26.7% 2009 2010: 20.0% 2010 2011: 56.5% 2011 2012: 60.9% 2012 2013: 58.3% 2013 2014: 45.5% 2014 2015: 73.0% 2015 2016: 54.5% 2016 2017: 71.0% 2017 2018: 66.7% 2018 2019: 81.8% 2019 2020: 88.6% 2020 2021: 90.0% 2021 2022: 81.3% 2022 2023: 80.0% 2023 2024: 81.6% 2024 2025: 36.4% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008100.0%
200915426.7%
201025520.0%
2011231356.5%
2012231460.9%
2013362158.3%
2014331545.5%
2015372773.0%
2016331854.5%
2017312271.0%
2018392666.7%
2019443681.8%
2020443988.6%
2021302790.0%
2022322681.3%
2023453680.0%
2024383181.6%
2025331236.4%
20266200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 622 0.6% 5.6% 88.3% 1.3%
Action 2 475 0.4% 2.1% 95.2% 1.9%
Action 3 321 0.9% 0.0% 96.3% 2.5%
Action 4 203 0.5% 0.0% 97.5% 1.5%
Action 5 121 0.0% 0.0% 98.3% 1.7%
Action 6 76 1.3% 0.0% 97.4% 0.0%
Action 7 43 0.0% 0.0% 97.7% 2.3%
Action 8 22 0.0% 0.0% 95.5% 4.5%
Action 9 12 0.0% 0.0% 91.7% 8.3%
Action 10 5 0.0% 0.0% 80.0% 20.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 318 office actions
All years 0.6% 11 of 1,903 office actions
Change -0.6 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%
0.0%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
2.2%
0.8%
0.8%
1.5%
2019: PEG
1.0%
0.0%
1.0%
0.9%
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: 11. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 3 reversed.

Full reversal rate
27.3% 3/11 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
27.3% 3/11 decisions
Median appeal duration
11.5 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 27, 2026 18/298,962 Affirmed §103
Dec. 4, 2023 16/564,018 Reversed N/A
Mar. 21, 2023 16/456,441 Reversed §103 · §112
Sep. 14, 2021 14/654,660 Affirmed §103
May. 22, 2019 14/278,254 Affirmed §103
Aug. 30, 2018 14/439,013 Affirmed §103
Aug. 21, 2018 13/932,503 Affirmed §103
Feb. 22, 2016 12/263,773 Affirmed §103 · §120
Mar. 20, 2015 11/925,196 Affirmed §103
Sep. 25, 2014 11/461,982 Affirmed N/A
Feb. 12, 2014 12/264,472 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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