Examiner Abdalla A Khaled

Grant ratio: 53.9% (51st percentile in Art Unit 3667 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.95. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 53.9%
Average office actions / grant 1.95
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
94914
Primary art unit
3667
Work group
3660
Technology center
3600
Applications
306
Granted applications
165
Examiner phone
(571) 272-9174

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 50 51.3% 1.86
Group 454 54.1% 1.86
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.01 616 office actions across 307 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 307 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 129 42.0%
2 OAs 105 34.2%
3 OAs 42 13.7%
4 OAs 13 4.2%
5+ OAs 18 5.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2019: 88.9% 2019 2020: 85.7% 2020 2021: 70.8% 2021 2022: 61.1% 2022 2023: 71.4% 2023 2024: 64.7% 2024 2025: 45.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20199888.9%
2020423685.7%
2021241770.8%
2022362261.1%
2023352571.4%
2024513364.7%
2025532445.3%
20265600.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 307 6.5% 1.0% 87.6% 1.6%
Action 2 178 10.7% 0.0% 86.5% 2.2%
Action 3 73 12.3% 0.0% 87.7% 0.0%
Action 4 31 3.2% 0.0% 96.8% 3.2%
Action 5 18 5.6% 0.0% 83.3% 5.6%
Action 6 7 71.4% 0.0% 42.9% 14.3%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 14.2% 41 of 288 office actions
All years 8.9% 55 of 616 office actions
Change +5.3 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
2.8%
8.2%
6.8%
2024: AI examples
13.3%
2025: August memo
16.1%
12.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 5. Merits outcomes: 2 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
40.0% 2/5 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
60.0% 3/5 decisions
Median appeal duration
9.2 months
New grounds of rejection
1
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 26, 2026 17/827,765 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Feb. 9, 2026 17/827,979 Reversed New ground of rejection §103 · §112
May. 15, 2025 17/386,830 Reversed §101 · §103
Jan. 22, 2025 16/200,059 Affirmed §101 · §112 · §120
Jul. 5, 2023 16/401,953 Affirmed in part §101 · §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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