Examiner Darioush Agahi

Grant ratio: 56.9% (20th percentile in Art Unit 2656 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.89. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 56.9%
Average office actions / grant 1.89
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
95830
Primary art unit
2656
Work group
2650
Technology center
2600
Applications
218
Granted applications
124
Examiner phone
(408) 918-7689
Supervisor
Bhavesh Mehta
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7453

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 36 66.7% 1.71
Group 210 58.4% 1.87
Tech Center 1,763 56.6% 1.88
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.89 411 office actions across 218 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 218 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 111 50.9%
2 OAs 53 24.3%
3 OAs 33 15.1%
4 OAs 14 6.4%
5+ OAs 7 3.2%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 100.0% 2020 2021: 88.0% 2021 2022: 90.0% 2022 2023: 82.1% 2023 2024: 85.3% 2024 2025: 39.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202011100.0%
2021252288.0%
2022302790.0%
2023282382.1%
2024342985.3%
2025562239.3%
20264400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 218 3.7% 1.8% 91.7% 0.9%
Action 2 107 11.2% 0.0% 87.9% 0.0%
Action 3 54 3.7% 0.0% 90.7% 3.7%
Action 4 21 9.5% 0.0% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 5 7 28.6% 0.0% 71.4% 0.0%
Action 6 4 50.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 10.0% 24 of 240 office actions
All years 6.8% 28 of 411 office actions
Change +3.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

50.0%
3.3%
1.5%
1.7%
2024: AI examples
4.5%
2025: August memo
17.8%
3.6%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Oct. 30, 2026.

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