Examiner Avinash Yentrapati

Grant ratio: 67.5% (40th percentile in Art Unit 2666 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.03. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 67.5%
Average office actions / grant 2.03
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86455
Primary art unit
2666
Work group
2660
Technology center
2600
Applications
722
Granted applications
487
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7982

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 38 64.4% 1.71
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 2.13 1,554 office actions across 731 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 731 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 358 49.0%
2 OAs 159 21.8%
3 OAs 92 12.6%
4 OAs 60 8.2%
5+ OAs 62 8.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 46.7% 2009 2010: 26.9% 2010 2011: 65.7% 2011 2012: 70.0% 2012 2013: 67.4% 2013 2014: 80.4% 2014 2015: 80.8% 2015 2016: 75.5% 2016 2017: 80.0% 2017 2018: 79.2% 2018 2019: 68.1% 2019 2020: 70.3% 2020 2021: 79.4% 2021 2022: 79.5% 2022 2023: 100.0% 2023 2024: 81.1% 2024 2025: 52.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200915746.7%
201026726.9%
2011352365.7%
2012402870.0%
2013463167.4%
2014463780.4%
2015262180.8%
2016534075.5%
2017453680.0%
2018483879.2%
2019473268.1%
2020644570.3%
2021342779.4%
2022393179.5%
20233131100.0%
2024373081.1%
2025442352.3%
20264600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 731 3.6% 12.3% 77.8% 5.3%
Action 2 373 0.5% 8.6% 86.1% 3.8%
Action 3 214 0.9% 4.7% 90.2% 3.7%
Action 4 122 0.8% 4.1% 89.3% 4.9%
Action 5 62 0.0% 3.2% 91.9% 3.2%
Action 6 30 0.0% 0.0% 93.3% 3.3%
Action 7 9 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 4 0.0% 0.0% 75.0% 25.0%
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 8.4% 16 of 190 office actions
All years 2.0% 31 of 1,554 office actions
Change +6.4 pts Percentage points

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

By year

1.9%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
3.5%
1.7%
3.4%
1.8%
0.6%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
3.8%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
8.1%
2025: August memo
11.3%
7.4%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
22.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Nov. 12, 2024 16/128,215 Affirmed §102 · §112
Dec. 22, 2014 11/688,993 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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