Examiner Arunava Chakravarti

Grant ratio: 7.7% (7th percentile in Art Unit 3693 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.86. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: October 2026
Grant ratio 7.7%
Average office actions / grant 3.86
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
87800
Primary art unit
3693
Work group
3690
Technology center
3600
Applications
469
Granted applications
36
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1646
Supervisor
Calvin Hewitt
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-6709

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 30.7% 2.44
Group 163 34.0% 2.69
Tech Center 2,394 45.5% 2.12
USPTO 16,620 51.8% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.57 1,676 office actions across 469 applications
Applications with office actions 98.9% 464 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 5 1.1%
1 OA 90 19.2%
2 OAs 109 23.2%
3 OAs 67 14.3%
4 OAs 74 15.8%
5+ OAs 124 26.4%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2011: 20.0% 2011 2012: 23.5% 2012 2013: 5.6% 2013 2014: 3.7% 2014 2015: 0.0% 2015 2016: 0.0% 2016 2017: 6.3% 2017 2018: 0.0% 2018 2019: 24.0% 2019 2020: 10.0% 2020 2021: 9.4% 2021 2022: 9.7% 2022 2023: 17.1% 2023 2024: 8.6% 2024 2025: 8.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201110220.0%
201217423.5%
20131815.6%
20142713.7%
20153500.0%
20163100.0%
20173226.3%
20183100.0%
201925624.0%
202030310.0%
20213239.4%
20223139.7%
202335617.1%
20243538.6%
20252528.0%
20265500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 464 6.7% 1.3% 86.9% 0.0%
Action 2 374 10.2% 0.3% 86.4% 0.3%
Action 3 265 18.5% 0.8% 77.4% 1.1%
Action 4 198 21.2% 0.0% 75.3% 0.0%
Action 5 124 22.6% 0.0% 72.6% 0.0%
Action 6 83 26.5% 0.0% 66.3% 1.2%
Action 7 48 20.8% 0.0% 75.0% 2.1%
Action 8 36 19.4% 0.0% 77.8% 0.0%
Action 9 26 34.6% 0.0% 65.4% 0.0%
Action 10 20 40.0% 0.0% 55.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 52.4% 142 of 271 office actions
All years 15.3% 256 of 1,676 office actions
Change +37.1 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-10-23–2026-10-23. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
0.0%
2014: Alice
2.3%
2.3%
2.5%
8.8%
4.9%
2019: PEG
4.6%
16.5%
16.1%
18.3%
37.0%
2024: AI examples
41.3%
2025: August memo
55.6%
61.3%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 61. Merits outcomes: 53 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 6 reversed.

Full reversal rate
10.0% 6/60 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
11.7% 7/60 decisions
Median appeal duration
14.0 months
New grounds of rejection
5
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jun. 25, 2026 18/220,124 Reversed §101 · §112
May. 28, 2026 18/297,936 Affirmed §101
Aug. 15, 2025 14/680,391 Reversed §101
Jun. 26, 2025 15/340,263 Affirmed §101
May. 20, 2025 17/095,024 Reversed §101
May. 14, 2025 15/335,906 Affirmed §101
Mar. 24, 2025 17/497,568 Rehearing Decision Granted §101
Feb. 26, 2025 17/410,534 Affirmed §101
Oct. 11, 2024 17/394,376 Affirmed §101 · §120
Aug. 20, 2024 16/863,437 Affirmed §101
Jun. 17, 2024 16/897,943 Affirmed §101 · §112
May. 2, 2024 16/744,989 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 Oct. 30, 2026.

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