Examiner Richa Mishra

Grant ratio: 56.7% (50th percentile in Art Unit 2673 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.09. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 56.7%
Average office actions / grant 3.09
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
89908
Primary art unit
2673
Work group
2670
Technology center
2600
Applications
420
Granted applications
238
Examiner phone
(571) 272-5357
Supervisor
Phan Hai
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6338

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 16 50.9% 1.70
Group 138 53.2% 1.79
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.02 1,268 office actions across 420 applications
Applications with office actions 98.1% 412 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 8 1.9%
1 OA 82 19.5%
2 OAs 104 24.8%
3 OAs 73 17.4%
4 OAs 82 19.5%
5+ OAs 71 16.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 0.0% 2012 2013: 72.2% 2013 2014: 60.0% 2014 2015: 44.7% 2015 2016: 57.1% 2016 2017: 70.2% 2017 2018: 60.5% 2018 2019: 60.6% 2019 2020: 50.0% 2020 2021: 63.6% 2021 2022: 73.7% 2022 2023: 73.5% 2023 2024: 82.6% 2024 2025: 54.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2012200.0%
2013181372.2%
2014251560.0%
2015381744.7%
2016281657.1%
2017473370.2%
2018432660.5%
2019332060.6%
202016850.0%
2021221463.6%
2022191473.7%
2023342573.5%
2024231982.6%
2025331854.5%
20263900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 412 0.7% 3.9% 90.0% 3.9%
Action 2 330 3.0% 3.3% 90.6% 3.0%
Action 3 226 3.5% 1.3% 91.2% 3.1%
Action 4 153 5.2% 0.7% 92.2% 2.0%
Action 5 71 7.0% 1.4% 85.9% 5.6%
Action 6 46 6.5% 0.0% 89.1% 2.2%
Action 7 21 9.5% 0.0% 90.5% 0.0%
Action 8 7 14.3% 0.0% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.0% 6 of 197 office actions
All years 3.2% 40 of 1,268 office actions
Change -0.1 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
3.5%
2.2%
12.0%
8.0%
2019: PEG
1.3%
0.0%
0.0%
1.3%
1.0%
2024: AI examples
2.7%
2025: August memo
5.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 17. Merits outcomes: 8 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 8 reversed.

Full reversal rate
47.1% 8/17 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
52.9% 9/17 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 29, 2026 17/284,796 Reversed N/A
May. 29, 2026 18/480,827 Affirmed §103
Sep. 2, 2025 16/990,357 Reversed §103
Apr. 30, 2025 17/004,293 Affirmed §103
May. 15, 2024 17/497,797 Reversed §103
Nov. 17, 2022 15/229,429 Reversed §103
Jan. 26, 2022 15/607,791 Affirmed §101 · §103
Oct. 8, 2021 15/694,348 Affirmed in part §103
Sep. 17, 2021 15/178,929 Reversed §103
Aug. 30, 2021 15/378,920 Reversed §103
Aug. 11, 2021 15/994,795 Affirmed §103
Feb. 10, 2021 14/627,717 Reversed §101 · §102 · §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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