Examiner Shadan E Haghani

Grant ratio: 48.7% (25th percentile in Art Unit 2485 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.59. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 48.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.59
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
91286
Primary art unit
2485
Work group
2480
Technology center
2400
Applications
417
Granted applications
203
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5631
Supervisor
Jay Patel
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2988

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 59.5% 1.95
Group 173 59.9% 2.01
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.52 1,051 office actions across 417 applications
Applications with office actions 99.5% 415 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.5%
1 OA 132 31.7%
2 OAs 120 28.8%
3 OAs 67 16.1%
4 OAs 51 12.2%
5+ OAs 45 10.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 20.0% 2014 2015: 11.8% 2015 2016: 42.5% 2016 2017: 60.0% 2017 2018: 68.4% 2018 2019: 72.7% 2019 2020: 56.5% 2020 2021: 81.0% 2021 2022: 57.1% 2022 2023: 50.0% 2023 2024: 66.7% 2024 2025: 37.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20145120.0%
201517211.8%
2016401742.5%
2017352160.0%
2018382668.4%
2019443272.7%
2020462656.5%
2021211781.0%
2022352057.1%
2023221150.0%
2024181266.7%
2025481837.5%
20264800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 415 0.0% 6.0% 92.8% 0.5%
Action 2 283 0.0% 4.2% 92.6% 1.8%
Action 3 163 0.0% 5.5% 90.8% 1.2%
Action 4 96 0.0% 3.1% 94.8% 0.0%
Action 5 45 0.0% 2.2% 95.6% 2.2%
Action 6 27 0.0% 0.0% 92.6% 0.0%
Action 7 12 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 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 222 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 1,051 office actions
Change 0.0 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
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: 13. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
45.5% 5/11 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
45.5% 5/11 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.8 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 8, 2023 16/352,755 Affirmed §103
Mar. 27, 2023 15/487,516 Rehearing Decision Denied §102 · §103
Aug. 9, 2022 15/178,304 Affirmed §103
Jul. 27, 2022 16/138,302 Reversed N/A
Jun. 16, 2022 13/733,845 Reversed §103
Mar. 29, 2022 15/668,745 Reversed §103
Feb. 17, 2022 16/203,326 Affirmed §103
Dec. 29, 2021 15/671,595 Affirmed §102 · §103
Oct. 2, 2020 14/703,366 Affirmed §103
Mar. 26, 2018 13/798,934 Reversed §103
Jan. 29, 2018 14/454,306 Reversed §103
Mar. 29, 2017 13/441,269 Affirmed §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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