Examiner Samanvitha Sridhar

Grant ratio: 33.9% (14th percentile in Art Unit 2872 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.21. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 33.9%
Average office actions / grant 2.21
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
98353
Primary art unit
2872
Work group
2870
Technology center
2800
Applications
127
Granted applications
43
Examiner phone
(571) 270-0082
Supervisor
Bumsuk Won
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2713

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 102 61.9% 1.70
Group 351 61.2% 1.71
Tech Center 2,413 62.4% 1.69
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.27 290 office actions across 128 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 128 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 38 29.7%
2 OAs 50 39.1%
3 OAs 19 14.8%
4 OAs 14 10.9%
5+ OAs 7 5.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2023: 90.0% 2023 2024: 63.2% 2024 2025: 27.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202310990.0%
2024382463.2%
2025371027.0%
20264200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 128 0.0% 18.8% 75.8% 4.7%
Action 2 90 2.2% 6.7% 80.0% 8.9%
Action 3 40 0.0% 0.0% 92.5% 7.5%
Action 4 21 0.0% 0.0% 95.2% 4.8%
Action 5 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 14.3%
Action 6 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.7% 2 of 285 office actions
All years 0.7% 2 of 290 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%
2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
3.5%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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