Examiner Mohammad Nourbakhsh

Grant ratio: 6.7% (3rd percentile in Art Unit 3722 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.00. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: November 2020
Grant ratio 6.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.00
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
67042
Primary art unit
3722
Work group
3720
Technology center
3700
Applications
30
Granted applications
2

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 25 56.6% 1.69
Group 314 51.5% 1.76
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.60 48 office actions across 30 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 30 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 18 60.0%
2 OAs 10 33.3%
3 OAs 0 0.0%
4 OAs 1 3.3%
5+ OAs 1 3.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 0.0% 2008 2009: 0.0% 2009 2011: 0.0% 2011 2012: 100.0% 2012 2013: 0.0% 2013 2014: 12.5% 2014 2017: 0.0% 2017 2020: 0.0% 2020

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008300.0%
2009100.0%
2011100.0%
201211100.0%
2013500.0%
20148112.5%
2017600.0%
2020500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 30 0.0% 10.0% 86.7% 3.3%
Action 2 12 0.0% 0.0% 91.7% 8.3%
Action 3 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 4 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.0% 0 of 48 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%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
29.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 7, 2012 10/538,970 Affirmed N/A

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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