Examiner Nandini Subramani

Grant ratio: 45.3% (11th percentile in Art Unit 2656 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.60. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 45.3%
Average office actions / grant 2.60
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
96434
Primary art unit
2656
Work group
2650
Technology center
2600
Applications
117
Granted applications
53
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3916
Supervisor
Bhavesh M Mehta
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7453

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 36 67.5% 1.71
Group 210 59.4% 1.87
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.59 303 office actions across 117 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 117 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 25 21.4%
2 OAs 41 35.0%
3 OAs 20 17.1%
4 OAs 21 17.9%
5+ OAs 10 8.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2021: 50.0% 2021 2022: 73.1% 2022 2023: 60.0% 2023 2024: 61.1% 2024 2025: 21.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20212150.0%
2022261973.1%
2023301860.0%
2024181161.1%
202519421.1%
20262200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 117 0.0% 2.6% 97.4% 0.0%
Action 2 92 1.1% 2.2% 97.8% 0.0%
Action 3 51 0.0% 2.0% 94.1% 2.0%
Action 4 31 0.0% 0.0% 96.8% 0.0%
Action 5 10 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.6% 1 of 165 office actions
All years 0.3% 1 of 303 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%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
3.8%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
7.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 31, 2024 17/356,341 Affirmed §103

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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