Examiner Mohammed A Bashar

Grant ratio: 84.5% (48th percentile in Art Unit 2824 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.32. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 84.5%
Average office actions / grant 1.32
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
90511
Primary art unit
2824
Work group
2820
Technology center
2800
Applications
689
Granted applications
582
Examiner phone
(571) 272-2908

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 28 76.9% 1.45
Group 207 71.2% 1.64
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.34 923 office actions across 689 applications
Applications with office actions 99.6% 686 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.4%
1 OA 490 71.1%
2 OAs 167 24.2%
3 OAs 18 2.6%
4 OAs 10 1.5%
5+ OAs 1 0.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 100.0% 2013 2014: 82.4% 2014 2015: 79.6% 2015 2016: 92.6% 2016 2017: 98.1% 2017 2018: 100.0% 2018 2019: 96.6% 2019 2020: 97.9% 2020 2021: 100.0% 2021 2022: 100.0% 2022 2023: 100.0% 2023 2024: 94.2% 2024 2025: 56.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201311100.0%
2014514282.4%
2015493979.6%
2016545092.6%
2017525198.1%
20185656100.0%
2019595796.6%
2020484797.9%
20215252100.0%
20224444100.0%
20235555100.0%
2024524994.2%
2025693956.5%
20264700.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 686 0.1% 6.0% 75.5% 3.1%
Action 2 196 0.0% 10.2% 86.2% 1.0%
Action 3 29 0.0% 0.0% 89.7% 3.4%
Action 4 11 0.0% 0.0% 90.9% 9.1%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 228 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 923 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 7. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
14.3% 1/7 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
28.6% 2/7 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.4 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 24, 2025 16/820,828 Reversed §103
May. 30, 2023 16/581,067 Affirmed §103
Jan. 29, 2021 15/484,735 Affirmed §103
Aug. 10, 2020 15/314,831 Affirmed in part §101 · §103
Apr. 24, 2018 13/456,419 Affirmed §102
Nov. 28, 2017 13/567,227 Affirmed §103
Aug. 25, 2017 13/315,149 Affirmed §102

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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