Examiner Brian Keith Palmarchuk

Grant ratio: 3.8% (4th percentile in Art Unit 3669 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 3.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.00
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
100913
Primary art unit
3669
Work group
3660
Technology center
3600
Applications
52
Granted applications
2
Examiner phone
(571) 272-6261
Supervisor
Navid Mehdizadeh
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7691

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 55 56.5% 1.85
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 1.94 101 office actions across 52 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 52 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 26 50.0%
2 OAs 12 23.1%
3 OAs 8 15.4%
4 OAs 3 5.8%
5+ OAs 3 5.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2025: 14.3% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
202514214.3%
20263800.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 52 3.8% 5.8% 88.5% 0.0%
Action 2 26 3.8% 3.8% 88.5% 7.7%
Action 3 14 0.0% 0.0% 92.9% 14.3%
Action 4 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 3.0% 3 of 101 office actions
All years 3.0% 3 of 101 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

2025: August memo
2.2%
3.6%

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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