Examiner Rupangini Singh

Grant ratio: 27.6% (51st percentile in Art Unit 3628 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.45. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 27.6%
Average office actions / grant 3.45
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
91530
Primary art unit
3628
Work group
3620
Technology center
3600
Applications
272
Granted applications
75
Examiner phone
(571) 270-0192
Supervisor
John W. Hayes
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6708

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 66 30.4% 2.32
Group 364 26.5% 2.85
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.79 758 office actions across 272 applications
Applications with office actions 93.8% 255 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 17 6.3%
1 OA 79 29.0%
2 OAs 65 23.9%
3 OAs 26 9.6%
4 OAs 33 12.1%
5+ OAs 52 19.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2014: 0.0% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 9.7% 2016 2017: 13.8% 2017 2018: 28.1% 2018 2019: 58.1% 2019 2020: 39.3% 2020 2021: 57.1% 2021 2022: 47.1% 2022 2023: 72.7% 2023 2024: 100.0% 2024 2025: 10.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2014700.0%
20151600.0%
20163139.7%
201729413.8%
201832928.1%
2019311858.1%
2020281139.3%
202114857.1%
202217847.1%
202311872.7%
202444100.0%
202519210.5%
20263300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 255 10.2% 0.8% 74.1% 3.5%
Action 2 176 14.8% 0.0% 74.4% 4.5%
Action 3 111 17.1% 0.0% 72.1% 4.5%
Action 4 85 25.9% 0.0% 62.4% 4.7%
Action 5 52 26.9% 0.0% 61.5% 1.9%
Action 6 34 23.5% 0.0% 55.9% 11.8%
Action 7 18 33.3% 0.0% 44.4% 22.2%
Action 8 11 36.4% 0.0% 27.3% 36.4%
Action 9 5 60.0% 0.0% 40.0% 0.0%
Action 10 4 75.0% 0.0% 25.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 51.8% 57 of 110 office actions
All years 18.2% 138 of 758 office actions
Change +33.6 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%
2014: Alice
0.0%
2.4%
5.3%
2.9%
19.3%
2019: PEG
27.6%
14.1%
20.6%
39.3%
33.3%
2024: AI examples
42.9%
2025: August memo
46.3%
61.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 0 reversed.

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
19.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Oct. 7, 2020 15/599,250 Affirmed §101 · §103
Jun. 16, 2020 13/920,292 Affirmed §101
Apr. 30, 2019 13/758,545 Affirmed §101 · §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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