Examiner Seyed Azarian

Grant ratio: 87.1% (83rd percentile in Art Unit 2667 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.30. Most common rejection type: §102.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 87.1%
Average office actions / grant 1.30
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
77243
Primary art unit
2667
Work group
2660
Technology center
2600
Applications
920
Granted applications
801
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7443

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 29 60.0% 1.65
Group 288 62.7% 1.66
Tech Center 1,759 56.9% 1.88
USPTO 16,572 52.1% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.29 1,188 office actions across 920 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 920 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 734 79.8%
2 OAs 134 14.6%
3 OAs 35 3.8%
4 OAs 11 1.2%
5+ OAs 6 0.7%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 81.0% 2008 2009: 88.3% 2009 2010: 88.6% 2010 2011: 81.3% 2011 2012: 87.8% 2012 2013: 90.7% 2013 2014: 90.5% 2014 2015: 90.7% 2015 2016: 92.6% 2016 2017: 93.7% 2017 2018: 92.7% 2018 2019: 92.3% 2019 2020: 94.8% 2020 2021: 93.6% 2021 2022: 90.6% 2022 2023: 85.7% 2023 2024: 92.3% 2024 2025: 47.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008635181.0%
2009776888.3%
2010353188.6%
2011322681.3%
2012413687.8%
2013544990.7%
2014635790.5%
2015544990.7%
2016817592.6%
2017797493.7%
2018555192.7%
2019524892.3%
2020585594.8%
2021474493.6%
2022322990.6%
2023211885.7%
2024262492.3%
2025341647.1%
20261600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 920 2.6% 50.1% 33.2% 0.7%
Action 2 186 1.6% 40.3% 54.3% 0.0%
Action 3 52 0.0% 25.0% 65.4% 5.8%
Action 4 17 5.9% 29.4% 58.8% 0.0%
Action 5 6 16.7% 0.0% 83.3% 0.0%
Action 6 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.0% 1 of 105 office actions
All years 2.4% 29 of 1,188 office actions
Change -1.5 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-02–2026-10-02. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2.9%
2.9%
4.8%
7.3%
0.0%
3.0%
2014: Alice
5.3%
4.4%
0.0%
4.0%
3.2%
2019: PEG
1.5%
1.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
2.7%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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
27.9 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 23, 2015 12/097,124 Affirmed 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 Oct. 9, 2026.

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