Examiner Mahbubul Bar Chowdhury

Grant ratio: 69.2% (34th percentile in Art Unit 2472 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 69.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.00
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
94016
Primary art unit
2472
Work group
2470
Technology center
2400
Applications
338
Granted applications
234
Examiner phone
(571) 272-0232
Supervisor
Idriss Alrobaye
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1023

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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 2.07 700 office actions across 338 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 337 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.3%
1 OA 157 46.4%
2 OAs 85 25.1%
3 OAs 47 13.9%
4 OAs 26 7.7%
5+ OAs 22 6.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2018: 50.0% 2018 2019: 74.4% 2019 2020: 82.1% 2020 2021: 94.7% 2021 2022: 89.6% 2022 2023: 85.7% 2023 2024: 77.8% 2024 2025: 51.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20188450.0%
2019433274.4%
2020393282.1%
2021383694.7%
2022484389.6%
2023423685.7%
2024362877.8%
2025452351.1%
20263900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 337 0.6% 5.3% 88.7% 3.3%
Action 2 180 1.1% 5.0% 88.9% 5.0%
Action 3 95 0.0% 3.2% 84.2% 8.4%
Action 4 48 0.0% 2.1% 81.3% 18.8%
Action 5 22 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 6 12 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 5 0.0% 0.0% 80.0% 20.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.8% 2 of 258 office actions
All years 0.6% 4 of 700 office actions
Change +0.2 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2.4%
2019: PEG
0.0%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
3.5%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 13, 2023 16/800,008 Affirmed §103
Jun. 23, 2021 15/541,847 Reversed §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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