Examiner Ambreen A. Alladin

Grant ratio: 19.5% (25th percentile in Art Unit 3693 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.34. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 19.5%
Average office actions / grant 3.34
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
88597
Primary art unit
3693
Work group
3690
Technology center
3600
Applications
374
Granted applications
73
Examiner phone
(571) 270-3533
Supervisor
Abhishek Vyas
Supervisor phone
(571) 270-1836

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 27 31.0% 2.44
Group 163 34.3% 2.69
Tech Center 2,381 46.2% 2.12
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.22 1,205 office actions across 374 applications
Applications with office actions 97.6% 365 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 9 2.4%
1 OA 91 24.3%
2 OAs 83 22.2%
3 OAs 42 11.2%
4 OAs 61 16.3%
5+ OAs 88 23.5%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 42.9% 2012 2013: 4.3% 2013 2014: 4.8% 2014 2015: 9.5% 2015 2016: 10.7% 2016 2017: 15.2% 2017 2018: 17.6% 2018 2019: 33.3% 2019 2020: 25.0% 2020 2021: 39.3% 2021 2022: 41.7% 2022 2023: 33.3% 2023 2024: 14.8% 2024 2025: 17.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20127342.9%
20132314.3%
20142114.8%
20152129.5%
201628310.7%
201733515.2%
201817317.6%
2019331133.3%
202028725.0%
2021281139.3%
2022241041.7%
202321733.3%
202427414.8%
202528517.9%
20263500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 365 7.9% 4.4% 83.3% 4.1%
Action 2 274 15.7% 3.3% 73.0% 5.8%
Action 3 191 21.5% 2.6% 69.1% 5.2%
Action 4 149 26.8% 1.3% 64.4% 6.7%
Action 5 88 28.4% 0.0% 60.2% 9.1%
Action 6 61 44.3% 1.6% 42.6% 11.5%
Action 7 30 43.3% 3.3% 33.3% 16.7%
Action 8 15 53.3% 0.0% 26.7% 20.0%
Action 9 8 62.5% 0.0% 25.0% 12.5%
Action 10 5 40.0% 0.0% 40.0% 20.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 46.9% 97 of 207 office actions
All years 20.7% 249 of 1,205 office actions
Change +26.2 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
5.5%
7.6%
14.6%
20.2%
19.6%
2019: PEG
24.7%
17.4%
28.4%
24.3%
34.6%
2024: AI examples
64.6%
2025: August memo
37.1%
39.5%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 26. Merits outcomes: 25 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
3.8% 1/26 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
3.8% 1/26 decisions
Median appeal duration
15.7 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 27, 2025 16/733,817 Affirmed §101
Nov. 25, 2024 16/938,434 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Oct. 31, 2023 15/606,174 Affirmed §101
Mar. 1, 2022 16/525,384 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §112
Nov. 3, 2021 16/030,115 Affirmed §101 · §112
Dec. 11, 2020 12/756,795 Affirmed §101
Dec. 2, 2020 15/987,696 Affirmed §101 · §103 · §112
Jul. 21, 2020 13/934,748 Affirmed §101 · §112
Jul. 16, 2020 14/074,660 Affirmed §101 · §112
Jul. 2, 2020 13/936,981 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §103
Jun. 29, 2020 13/022,420 Affirmed §101
Apr. 29, 2020 13/938,176 Affirmed §101 · §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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