Examiner Insa Sadio

Grant ratio: 76.2% (78th percentile in Art Unit 2628 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 76.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.00
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
85176
Primary art unit
2628
Work group
2620
Technology center
2600
Applications
821
Granted applications
626
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5580
Supervisor
Nitin K Patel
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7677

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 55.4% 1.88
Group 279 55.5% 2.00
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.98 1,622 office actions across 821 applications
Applications with office actions 97.3% 799 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 22 2.7%
1 OA 403 49.1%
2 OAs 204 24.8%
3 OAs 70 8.5%
4 OAs 61 7.4%
5+ OAs 61 7.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 0.0% 2008 2009: 44.7% 2009 2010: 50.0% 2010 2011: 73.3% 2011 2012: 67.4% 2012 2013: 57.6% 2013 2014: 61.3% 2014 2015: 72.5% 2015 2016: 66.0% 2016 2017: 93.5% 2017 2018: 85.9% 2018 2019: 100.0% 2019 2020: 92.2% 2020 2021: 94.4% 2021 2022: 95.1% 2022 2023: 100.0% 2023 2024: 93.3% 2024 2025: 41.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008500.0%
2009381744.7%
2010221150.0%
2011302273.3%
2012463167.4%
2013331957.6%
2014623861.3%
2015402972.5%
2016503366.0%
2017777293.5%
2018645585.9%
20196262100.0%
2020514792.2%
2021545194.4%
2022413995.1%
20234141100.0%
2024454293.3%
2025411741.5%
20261900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 799 0.9% 4.9% 68.0% 3.6%
Action 2 396 0.0% 3.0% 87.4% 3.8%
Action 3 192 0.0% 2.6% 94.8% 1.6%
Action 4 122 0.0% 2.5% 96.7% 0.8%
Action 5 61 0.0% 1.6% 93.4% 1.6%
Action 6 30 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 12 0.0% 0.0% 91.7% 0.0%
Action 8 5 0.0% 0.0% 80.0% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.7% 1 of 135 office actions
All years 0.4% 7 of 1,622 office actions
Change +0.3 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%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
1.1%
2019: PEG
1.2%
0.0%
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
2.2%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 18. Merits outcomes: 7 affirmed, 4 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
38.9% 7/18 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
61.1% 11/18 decisions
Median appeal duration
21.7 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 16, 2022 16/447,559 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §103 · §112
Jan. 29, 2020 14/971,584 Reversed §103
Sep. 25, 2019 13/887,003 Reversed §103
Jun. 28, 2018 12/761,305 Affirmed §103
Apr. 5, 2018 13/259,147 Affirmed in part §103
Mar. 7, 2018 12/756,583 Reversed §103
Jan. 31, 2017 13/051,547 Affirmed in part §103
Jan. 30, 2017 12/719,617 Reversed §103
Jul. 7, 2016 11/707,894 Affirmed N/A
Jun. 30, 2016 13/648,638 Affirmed §103
Mar. 4, 2016 12/782,494 Affirmed §102 · §103
Jan. 29, 2016 12/051,413 Affirmed in part 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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