Examiner Ibrahim Siddo

Grant ratio: 76.8% (76th percentile in Art Unit 2675 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.74. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 76.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.74
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
89039
Primary art unit
2675
Work group
2670
Technology center
2600
Applications
499
Granted applications
383
Examiner phone
(571) 272-4508
Supervisor
Akwasi Sarpong
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-3438

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 56.8% 1.82
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 1.76 877 office actions across 499 applications
Applications with office actions 99.4% 496 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.6%
1 OA 287 57.5%
2 OAs 106 21.2%
3 OAs 57 11.4%
4 OAs 31 6.2%
5+ OAs 15 3.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 57.1% 2012 2013: 82.5% 2013 2014: 80.8% 2014 2015: 81.5% 2015 2016: 73.8% 2016 2017: 89.2% 2017 2018: 68.6% 2018 2019: 81.6% 2019 2020: 84.8% 2020 2021: 76.9% 2021 2022: 90.5% 2022 2023: 96.3% 2023 2024: 91.9% 2024 2025: 58.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20127457.1%
2013403382.5%
2014262180.8%
2015272281.5%
2016423173.8%
2017373389.2%
2018352468.6%
2019494081.6%
2020463984.8%
2021262076.9%
2022423890.5%
2023272696.3%
2024373491.9%
2025311858.1%
20262700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 496 1.4% 10.7% 80.0% 0.2%
Action 2 209 0.5% 4.8% 92.3% 2.4%
Action 3 103 0.0% 1.0% 98.1% 1.0%
Action 4 46 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 15 0.0% 0.0% 93.3% 6.7%
Action 6 6 0.0% 0.0% 66.7% 33.3%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 50.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.8% 1 of 119 office actions
All years 0.9% 8 of 877 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%
5.3%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
1.4%
1.3%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.8%
5.9%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
2.8%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
33.3% 1/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
13.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 11, 2019 14/598,189 Affirmed §103
Jun. 17, 2019 14/966,272 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
Feb. 26, 2019 14/310,271 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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