Examiner Brendon Beheshti

Grant ratio: 12.2% (39th percentile in Art Unit 3681 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.60. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: January 2020
Grant ratio 12.2%
Average office actions / grant 3.60
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
89195
Primary art unit
3681
Work group
3680
Technology center
3600
Applications
123
Granted applications
15

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 21 16.3% 3.12
Group 285 28.7% 2.80
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.48 352 office actions across 142 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 142 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 52 36.6%
2 OAs 42 29.6%
3 OAs 14 9.9%
4 OAs 14 9.9%
5+ OAs 20 14.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2013: 0.0% 2013 2014: 3.8% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 10.5% 2016 2017: 11.1% 2017 2018: 0.0% 2018 2019: 30.0% 2019 2020: 71.4% 2020

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20131400.0%
20142613.8%
20151800.0%
201619210.5%
20179111.1%
20181000.0%
201920630.0%
20207571.4%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 142 2.1% 39.4% 54.9% 3.5%
Action 2 90 47.8% 10.0% 27.8% 14.4%
Action 3 48 50.0% 4.2% 33.3% 12.5%
Action 4 34 50.0% 0.0% 23.5% 26.5%
Action 5 20 40.0% 5.0% 10.0% 45.0%
Action 6 8 50.0% 12.5% 12.5% 25.0%
Action 7 4 75.0% 0.0% 25.0% 0.0%
Action 8 3 66.7% 0.0% 0.0% 33.3%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Action 10 1 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 30.1% 106 of 352 office actions
Change N/A 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%
12.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
5.2%
2014: Alice
15.2%
51.0%
63.2%
40.0%
66.7%
2019: PEG
27.7%
31.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 4. Merits outcomes: 3 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
25.0% 1/4 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 22, 2021 15/416,572 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Jul. 29, 2020 13/282,199 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Mar. 29, 2018 13/699,574 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103 · §112
Mar. 26, 2018 13/777,914 Reversed §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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