Examiner Tanmay Shah

Grant ratio: 82.8% (48th percentile in Art Unit 2632 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.70. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 82.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.70
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
84323
Primary art unit
2632
Work group
2630
Technology center
2600
Applications
1,059
Granted applications
877
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3624
Supervisor
Chieh Fan
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3042

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 73.9% 1.79
Group 104 68.1% 1.65
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.68 1,779 office actions across 1,059 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 1,057 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.2%
1 OA 673 63.6%
2 OAs 209 19.7%
3 OAs 92 8.7%
4 OAs 43 4.1%
5+ OAs 40 3.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 50.0% 2008 2009: 66.7% 2009 2010: 75.0% 2010 2011: 86.5% 2011 2012: 79.1% 2012 2013: 88.9% 2013 2014: 94.1% 2014 2015: 94.2% 2015 2016: 86.3% 2016 2017: 85.1% 2017 2018: 93.3% 2018 2019: 96.1% 2019 2020: 88.2% 2020 2021: 97.5% 2021 2022: 96.3% 2022 2023: 96.4% 2023 2024: 93.0% 2024 2025: 43.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200818950.0%
2009453066.7%
2010322475.0%
2011524586.5%
2012433479.1%
2013363288.9%
2014858094.1%
2015524994.2%
2016736386.3%
2017675785.1%
2018605693.3%
2019767396.1%
2020766788.2%
2021807897.5%
2022545296.3%
2023555396.4%
2024575393.0%
2025512243.1%
20264700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 1,057 1.9% 17.4% 66.3% 1.8%
Action 2 384 0.3% 15.1% 81.8% 1.3%
Action 3 175 0.6% 11.4% 86.9% 0.6%
Action 4 83 0.0% 12.0% 88.0% 0.0%
Action 5 40 0.0% 5.0% 95.0% 0.0%
Action 6 23 0.0% 4.3% 95.7% 0.0%
Action 7 8 0.0% 25.0% 75.0% 0.0%
Action 8 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 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 1.5% 3 of 196 office actions
All years 1.2% 22 of 1,779 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.3%
2014: Alice
3.1%
1.1%
2.3%
0.9%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
3.3%
3.8%
2.9%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
4.2%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 9. Merits outcomes: 0 affirmed, 5 affirmed in part, and 4 reversed.

Full reversal rate
44.4% 4/9 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 9/9 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.1 months
New grounds of rejection
2
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 25, 2025 17/777,291 Reversed §102 · §103
Oct. 14, 2021 15/684,412 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §103
Mar. 24, 2021 15/842,412 Affirmed in part §103
Aug. 31, 2018 14/744,383 Affirmed in part §103
Jun. 15, 2018 14/551,583 Affirmed in part §103
Oct. 19, 2017 14/270,949 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §103
Sep. 25, 2017 11/688,756 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Jun. 6, 2016 13/098,227 Reversed §103
Mar. 26, 2015 11/739,094 Reversed 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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