Examiner Rockshana D Chowdhury

Grant ratio: 70.3% (70th percentile in Art Unit 2841 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.96. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 70.3%
Average office actions / grant 1.96
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91474
Primary art unit
2841
Work group
2840
Technology center
2800
Applications
683
Granted applications
480
Examiner phone
(571) 272-1602
Supervisor
Allen L Parker
Supervisor phone
(303) 297-4722

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 64.7% 1.53
Group 231 68.9% 1.60
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.89 1,288 office actions across 683 applications
Applications with office actions 97.5% 666 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 17 2.5%
1 OA 327 47.9%
2 OAs 188 27.5%
3 OAs 76 11.1%
4 OAs 41 6.0%
5+ OAs 34 5.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 16.7% 2014 2015: 39.0% 2015 2016: 47.4% 2016 2017: 70.8% 2017 2018: 82.3% 2018 2019: 91.8% 2019 2020: 86.8% 2020 2021: 79.6% 2021 2022: 98.1% 2022 2023: 92.9% 2023 2024: 94.5% 2024 2025: 61.6% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201412216.7%
2015411639.0%
2016572747.4%
2017483470.8%
2018625182.3%
2019615691.8%
2020534686.8%
2021493979.6%
2022535298.1%
2023565292.9%
2024555294.5%
2025865361.6%
20265000.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 666 0.0% 16.5% 81.7% 0.6%
Action 2 339 0.3% 13.9% 82.6% 1.8%
Action 3 151 0.0% 6.0% 92.1% 1.3%
Action 4 75 0.0% 5.3% 92.0% 2.7%
Action 5 34 0.0% 2.9% 97.1% 0.0%
Action 6 14 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.0% 0 of 288 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 1,288 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

2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.8%
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: 9. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 5 reversed.

Full reversal rate
55.6% 5/9 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
66.7% 6/9 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.7 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Aug. 19, 2025 16/831,170 Reversed §102 · §103
Apr. 17, 2025 17/652,062 Reversed N/A
Feb. 5, 2025 16/946,739 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §103 · §112
May. 12, 2022 15/806,086 Reversed §102 · §103
Aug. 13, 2020 14/303,510 Reversed §103
Jan. 13, 2020 15/068,922 Affirmed §103
Mar. 19, 2019 14/247,335 Affirmed §103 · §112
Sep. 14, 2018 13/722,408 Affirmed §103
Dec. 18, 2017 14/238,034 Reversed §103

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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