Examiner Savitr Mulpuri

Grant ratio: 78.7% (50th percentile in Art Unit 2816 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.84. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: February 2024
Grant ratio 78.7%
Average office actions / grant 1.84
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
72026
Primary art unit
2816
Work group
2810
Technology center
2800
Applications
680
Granted applications
535

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 73.9% 1.84
Group 305 54.6% 1.79
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.03 1,395 office actions across 687 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 687 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 363 52.8%
2 OAs 163 23.7%
3 OAs 69 10.0%
4 OAs 40 5.8%
5+ OAs 52 7.6%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 75.0% 2008 2009: 72.5% 2009 2010: 79.2% 2010 2011: 61.9% 2011 2012: 69.0% 2012 2013: 64.2% 2013 2014: 83.8% 2014 2015: 78.3% 2015 2016: 75.6% 2016 2017: 61.4% 2017 2018: 84.8% 2018 2019: 85.4% 2019 2020: 90.0% 2020 2021: 91.9% 2021 2022: 94.9% 2022 2023: 96.0% 2023 2024: 100.0% 2024

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008241875.0%
2009513772.5%
2010241979.2%
2011422661.9%
2012584069.0%
2013533464.2%
2014373183.8%
2015463678.3%
2016413175.6%
2017442761.4%
2018332884.8%
2019484185.4%
2020504590.0%
2021373491.9%
2022393794.9%
2023504896.0%
202433100.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 687 0.0% 21.3% 56.3% 0.9%
Action 2 324 0.0% 11.7% 75.6% 0.3%
Action 3 161 0.0% 7.5% 81.4% 0.0%
Action 4 92 0.0% 3.3% 88.0% 1.1%
Action 5 52 0.0% 1.9% 90.4% 0.0%
Action 6 25 0.0% 4.0% 84.0% 0.0%
Action 7 16 0.0% 0.0% 93.8% 0.0%
Action 8 10 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 8 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 5 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 25 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 1,395 office actions
Change 0.0 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
100.0% 2/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 2/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
31.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 29, 2014 11/020,672 Reversed N/A
Oct. 25, 2013 11/761,897 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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