Examiner Nadia Khoshnoodi

Grant ratio: 60.2% (13th percentile in Art Unit 2494 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.52. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: November 2017
Grant ratio 60.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.52
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
80432
Primary art unit
2494
Work group
2490
Technology center
2400
Applications
181
Granted applications
109

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 64.6% 2.04
Group 198 61.4% 2.06
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.62 498 office actions across 190 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 190 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 55 28.9%
2 OAs 54 28.4%
3 OAs 27 14.2%
4 OAs 33 17.4%
5+ OAs 21 11.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 63.2% 2008 2009: 68.4% 2009 2010: 60.7% 2010 2011: 63.2% 2011 2012: 60.0% 2012 2013: 56.3% 2013 2014: 54.5% 2014 2015: 58.3% 2015 2016: 75.0% 2016 2017: 50.0% 2017

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008191263.2%
2009191368.4%
2010281760.7%
2011191263.2%
2012251560.0%
2013321856.3%
201411654.5%
201512758.3%
20164375.0%
201712650.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 190 1.6% 6.8% 88.4% 1.1%
Action 2 135 2.2% 4.4% 92.6% 0.7%
Action 3 81 3.7% 7.4% 86.4% 2.5%
Action 4 54 0.0% 5.6% 94.4% 0.0%
Action 5 21 4.8% 0.0% 95.2% 0.0%
Action 6 10 0.0% 0.0% 90.0% 10.0%
Action 7 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
Action 8 3 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 2.0% 10 of 498 office actions
Change N/A 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%
1.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
2014: Alice
7.7%
8.0%
4.5%
16.7%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 8. Merits outcomes: 6 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
14.3% 1/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
30.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 13, 2017 11/805,041 Affirmed §103
Jun. 3, 2015 12/472,084 Affirmed N/A
Apr. 28, 2015 10/903,393 Affirmed N/A
Jul. 15, 2014 11/647,274 Affirmed in part §103
Jun. 23, 2014 10/992,487 Affirmed §101 · §103
May. 28, 2013 10/900,491 Dismissed N/A
Mar. 20, 2013 10/359,922 Affirmed §103
Apr. 18, 2011 10/026,043 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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