Examiner Sameera Wickramasuriya

Grant ratio: 65.2% (29th percentile in Art Unit 2494 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.22. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: June 2026
Grant ratio 65.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.22
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
93590
Primary art unit
2494
Work group
2490
Technology center
2400
Applications
187
Granted applications
122
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1507

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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 2.17 406 office actions across 187 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 187 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 69 36.9%
2 OAs 61 32.6%
3 OAs 25 13.4%
4 OAs 23 12.3%
5+ OAs 9 4.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2017: 28.6% 2017 2018: 64.7% 2018 2019: 67.9% 2019 2020: 84.6% 2020 2021: 86.7% 2021 2022: 86.4% 2022 2023: 80.0% 2023 2024: 77.3% 2024 2025: 31.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20177228.6%
2018171164.7%
2019281967.9%
2020262284.6%
2021151386.7%
2022221986.4%
2023151280.0%
2024221777.3%
202522731.8%
20261300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 187 0.5% 7.0% 85.0% 5.9%
Action 2 118 0.0% 2.5% 94.1% 3.4%
Action 3 57 0.0% 3.5% 93.0% 3.5%
Action 4 32 0.0% 3.1% 93.8% 3.1%
Action 5 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.9% 1 of 115 office actions
All years 0.2% 1 of 406 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%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
2.1%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 22, 2021 15/318,868 Reversed §102 · §103
Dec. 2, 2021 15/257,935 Affirmed §103
Jul. 2, 2021 14/995,025 Affirmed §103 · §112

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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