Examiner Amandeep Saini

Grant ratio: 87.8% (93rd percentile in Art Unit 2665 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.60. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 87.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.60
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
89026
Primary art unit
2665
Work group
2660
Technology center
2600
Applications
614
Granted applications
539
Examiner phone
(571) 272-3382

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 37 68.6% 1.65
Group 289 63.2% 1.66
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.63 1,006 office actions across 619 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 619 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 382 61.7%
2 OAs 159 25.7%
3 OAs 34 5.5%
4 OAs 29 4.7%
5+ OAs 15 2.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 83.3% 2012 2013: 80.0% 2013 2014: 90.7% 2014 2015: 93.8% 2015 2016: 95.3% 2016 2017: 98.0% 2017 2018: 90.7% 2018 2019: 88.3% 2019 2020: 90.5% 2020 2021: 89.1% 2021 2022: 92.9% 2022 2023: 70.0% 2023 2025: 22.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2012121083.3%
2013453680.0%
2014433990.7%
2015484593.8%
2016646195.3%
2017515098.0%
2018756890.7%
2019605388.3%
2020746790.5%
2021554989.1%
2022565292.9%
202310770.0%
20259222.2%
20261200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 619 5.5% 6.0% 74.0% 7.8%
Action 2 237 4.2% 3.8% 80.2% 7.2%
Action 3 78 2.6% 1.3% 92.3% 2.6%
Action 4 44 0.0% 0.0% 95.5% 4.5%
Action 5 15 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 7 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 20.0% 5 of 25 office actions
All years 4.6% 46 of 1,006 office actions
Change +15.4 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

10.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
3.9%
5.0%
12.7%
7.4%
2019: PEG
2.9%
4.9%
3.4%
1.2%
0.0%
2025: August memo
9.1%
28.6%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 6, 2022 15/572,180 Affirmed §103
Dec. 9, 2020 14/846,882 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §120
Dec. 1, 2020 14/846,880 Affirmed §103 · §120
Nov. 30, 2016 13/907,034 Affirmed §101 · §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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