Examiner Md Saiful A Siddiqui

Grant ratio: 71.7% (64th percentile in Art Unit 2692 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.97. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 71.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.97
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88124
Primary art unit
2692
Work group
2690
Technology center
2600
Applications
812
Granted applications
582
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1530
Supervisor
Lun-Yi Lao
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7671

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 56.1% 2.01
Group 96 51.2% 2.11
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.98 1,611 office actions across 812 applications
Applications with office actions 99.5% 808 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 0.5%
1 OA 380 46.8%
2 OAs 207 25.5%
3 OAs 124 15.3%
4 OAs 65 8.0%
5+ OAs 32 3.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 64.3% 2011 2012: 63.0% 2012 2013: 56.3% 2013 2014: 55.0% 2014 2015: 84.8% 2015 2016: 66.7% 2016 2017: 84.1% 2017 2018: 88.5% 2018 2019: 80.8% 2019 2020: 76.9% 2020 2021: 86.4% 2021 2022: 80.3% 2022 2023: 88.2% 2023 2024: 92.2% 2024 2025: 41.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201114964.3%
2012462963.0%
2013321856.3%
2014402255.0%
2015665684.8%
2016604066.7%
2017695884.1%
2018615488.5%
2019524280.8%
2020524076.9%
2021595186.4%
2022614980.3%
2023514588.2%
2024514792.2%
2025532241.5%
20264500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 808 1.7% 1.1% 86.4% 7.8%
Action 2 428 0.2% 1.2% 90.4% 6.8%
Action 3 221 0.0% 0.0% 92.3% 6.8%
Action 4 97 1.0% 0.0% 88.7% 10.3%
Action 5 32 0.0% 0.0% 87.5% 6.3%
Action 6 17 0.0% 0.0% 82.4% 17.6%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.4% 4 of 281 office actions
All years 1.0% 16 of 1,611 office actions
Change +0.4 pts Percentage points

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

By year

1.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
1.8%
2.2%
0.0%
1.7%
2019: PEG
0.9%
0.0%
0.9%
2.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
1.2%
5.7%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
57.1% 4/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
71.4% 5/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 18, 2025 18/010,843 Reversed §103
Aug. 6, 2025 17/977,218 Reversed N/A
Jul. 29, 2025 17/983,965 Affirmed §103
Jun. 27, 2024 17/532,952 Reversed §112
Jan. 19, 2017 12/832,962 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Sep. 20, 2016 13/851,601 Reversed §103
Dec. 10, 2015 12/763,772 Affirmed §102 · §103 · §112

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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