Examiner Muhammad S Islam

Grant ratio: 78.4% (58th percentile in Art Unit 2837 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 78.4%
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
90514
Primary art unit
2837
Work group
2830
Technology center
2800
Applications
634
Granted applications
497
Examiner phone
(571) 272-8439

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 63 70.6% 1.60
Group 354 67.0% 1.58
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.46 923 office actions across 634 applications
Applications with office actions 98.3% 623 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 11 1.7%
1 OA 431 68.0%
2 OAs 121 19.1%
3 OAs 47 7.4%
4 OAs 17 2.7%
5+ OAs 7 1.1%

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: 57.1% 2014 2015: 87.2% 2015 2016: 80.8% 2016 2017: 90.3% 2017 2018: 89.4% 2018 2019: 88.1% 2019 2020: 85.1% 2020 2021: 97.9% 2021 2022: 95.2% 2022 2023: 100.0% 2023 2024: 96.0% 2024 2025: 56.7% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201311100.0%
2014281657.1%
2015393487.2%
2016786380.8%
2017726590.3%
2018665989.4%
2019847488.1%
2020675785.1%
2021474697.9%
2022212095.2%
20232121100.0%
2024252496.0%
2025301756.7%
20265500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 623 1.0% 34.0% 51.7% 10.0%
Action 2 192 0.5% 24.0% 55.2% 19.8%
Action 3 71 0.0% 21.1% 70.4% 7.0%
Action 4 24 0.0% 16.7% 70.8% 12.5%
Action 5 7 0.0% 14.3% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 6 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 3 0.0% 33.3% 66.7% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 2.4% 3 of 123 office actions
All years 0.8% 7 of 923 office actions
Change +1.7 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%
1.7%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
1.2%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
3.6%
2025: August memo
0.0%
3.5%

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
36.0 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jan. 9, 2023 15/834,304 Reversed §102
Feb. 6, 2018 14/288,016 Reversed §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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