Examiner Hashim S Bhatti

Grant ratio: 73.7% (50th percentile in Art Unit 2472 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.79. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 73.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.79
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88993
Primary art unit
2472
Work group
2470
Technology center
2400
Applications
430
Granted applications
317
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7748
Supervisor
Khaled Kassim
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-3770

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 31 59.9% 1.72
Group 202 63.7% 1.93
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.86 798 office actions across 430 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 430 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 220 51.2%
2 OAs 122 28.4%
3 OAs 47 10.9%
4 OAs 23 5.3%
5+ OAs 18 4.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 83.3% 2012 2013: 88.2% 2013 2014: 84.4% 2014 2015: 75.0% 2015 2016: 94.7% 2016 2017: 83.7% 2017 2018: 85.2% 2018 2019: 83.3% 2019 2020: 78.6% 2020 2021: 90.0% 2021 2022: 89.7% 2022 2023: 76.9% 2023 2024: 77.8% 2024 2025: 48.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2012121083.3%
2013343088.2%
2014322784.4%
2015282175.0%
2016383694.7%
2017433683.7%
2018272385.2%
2019302583.3%
2020141178.6%
2021201890.0%
2022292689.7%
2023262076.9%
2024272177.8%
2025271348.1%
20264300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 430 0.5% 6.3% 65.6% 11.9%
Action 2 210 0.5% 3.8% 78.1% 8.1%
Action 3 88 0.0% 0.0% 87.5% 11.4%
Action 4 41 0.0% 0.0% 92.7% 4.9%
Action 5 18 0.0% 0.0% 94.4% 5.6%
Action 6 8 0.0% 0.0% 87.5% 12.5%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 177 office actions
All years 0.4% 3 of 798 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%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
0.0%
2019: PEG
1.9%
0.0%
0.0%
2.2%
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: 10. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 5 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
10.0% 1/10 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
60.0% 6/10 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 30, 2025 18/066,244 Affirmed in part §103
May. 20, 2025 16/947,152 Affirmed §103
Oct. 16, 2024 16/656,874 Affirmed N/A
Aug. 8, 2023 16/832,912 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Jul. 30, 2021 16/038,528 Affirmed in part §103
Jan. 24, 2019 14/443,432 Affirmed §112
Nov. 13, 2018 14/430,595 Reversed §112
Aug. 24, 2018 14/385,139 Affirmed N/A
Feb. 16, 2018 13/982,330 Affirmed in part §103 · §112 · §120
Jun. 2, 2017 13/818,127 Affirmed in part §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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