Examiner Amir Mehrmanesh

Grant ratio: 85.1% (93rd percentile in Art Unit 2497 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.73. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: April 2020
Grant ratio 85.1%
Average office actions / grant 1.73
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86635
Primary art unit
2497
Work group
2490
Technology center
2400
Applications
355
Granted applications
302

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 26 66.5% 1.93
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 1.71 616 office actions across 361 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 361 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 210 58.2%
2 OAs 87 24.1%
3 OAs 35 9.7%
4 OAs 19 5.3%
5+ OAs 10 2.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 50.0% 2009 2010: 100.0% 2010 2011: 82.4% 2011 2012: 82.8% 2012 2013: 88.4% 2013 2014: 93.8% 2014 2015: 93.0% 2015 2016: 83.7% 2016 2017: 89.2% 2017 2018: 78.0% 2018 2019: 91.2% 2019 2020: 90.9% 2020

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2009221150.0%
201033100.0%
2011171482.4%
2012292482.8%
2013433888.4%
2014323093.8%
2015434093.0%
2016433683.7%
2017373389.2%
2018413278.0%
2019343191.2%
2020111090.9%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 361 2.8% 21.6% 66.8% 3.3%
Action 2 151 3.3% 12.6% 81.5% 0.0%
Action 3 64 0.0% 7.8% 89.1% 1.6%
Action 4 29 0.0% 6.9% 93.1% 0.0%
Action 5 10 0.0% 10.0% 90.0% 0.0%
Action 6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 2.4% 15 of 616 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%
0.0%
20.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
6.8%
15.3%
2019: PEG
1.9%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 5. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Feb. 11, 2022 15/449,876 Reversed §103
Apr. 3, 2019 14/307,808 Reversed §103
Jun. 26, 2018 14/097,045 Affirmed §103
Sep. 29, 2016 13/036,445 Affirmed §101 · §103
Sep. 21, 2015 11/821,442 Affirmed N/A

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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