Examiner Omeed Alizada

Grant ratio: 70.3% (35th percentile in Art Unit 2686 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.53. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 70.3%
Average office actions / grant 1.53
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
87166
Primary art unit
2686
Work group
2680
Technology center
2600
Applications
612
Granted applications
430
Examiner phone
(571) 270-5907
Supervisor
Brian Zimmerman
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3059

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 12 68.6% 1.64
Group 114 64.6% 1.80
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.51 925 office actions across 612 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 610 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.3%
1 OA 408 66.7%
2 OAs 138 22.5%
3 OAs 31 5.1%
4 OAs 20 3.3%
5+ OAs 13 2.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 100.0% 2010 2011: 56.5% 2011 2012: 60.6% 2012 2013: 65.4% 2013 2014: 60.5% 2014 2015: 69.8% 2015 2016: 77.1% 2016 2017: 73.1% 2017 2018: 78.7% 2018 2019: 89.2% 2019 2020: 84.6% 2020 2021: 100.0% 2021 2022: 77.4% 2022 2023: 86.8% 2023 2024: 76.7% 2024 2025: 75.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201022100.0%
2011231356.5%
2012332060.6%
2013261765.4%
2014432660.5%
2015433069.8%
2016483777.1%
2017523873.1%
2018473778.7%
2019373389.2%
2020393384.6%
20212929100.0%
2022312477.4%
2023383386.8%
2024433376.7%
2025332575.8%
20264500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 610 1.1% 3.8% 90.3% 1.1%
Action 2 202 0.0% 2.5% 94.6% 1.0%
Action 3 64 0.0% 1.6% 93.8% 1.6%
Action 4 33 0.0% 3.0% 93.9% 3.0%
Action 5 13 0.0% 0.0% 92.3% 7.7%
Action 6 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.2% 2 of 165 office actions
All years 0.8% 7 of 925 office actions
Change +0.5 pts Percentage points

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

By year

14.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2.1%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
2.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
2.8%
2.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 4 affirmed, 2 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
14.3% 1/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
42.9% 3/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
27.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 6, 2026 17/920,286 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jun. 26, 2019 14/721,576 Affirmed §103
Aug. 4, 2016 13/305,972 Affirmed §103
Sep. 24, 2015 12/494,568 Affirmed in part N/A
Sep. 10, 2015 12/494,986 Affirmed N/A
Jun. 29, 2015 12/342,534 Affirmed in part N/A
Jun. 19, 2015 11/948,581 Reversed 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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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