Examiner Jamal Daniel

Grant ratio: 61.3% (68th percentile in Art Unit 3723 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.96. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: February 2016
Grant ratio 61.3%
Average office actions / grant 1.96
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
85480
Primary art unit
3723
Work group
3720
Technology center
3700
Applications
346
Granted applications
212

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 87 44.4% 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 1.87 648 office actions across 346 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 346 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 173 50.0%
2 OAs 100 28.9%
3 OAs 40 11.6%
4 OAs 18 5.2%
5+ OAs 15 4.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 11.1% 2008 2009: 31.0% 2009 2010: 56.9% 2010 2011: 61.4% 2011 2012: 76.6% 2012 2013: 75.5% 2013 2014: 73.8% 2014 2015: 64.3% 2015 2016: 42.9% 2016

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20089111.1%
2009421331.0%
2010512956.9%
2011573561.4%
2012473676.6%
2013493775.5%
2014423173.8%
2015422764.3%
20167342.9%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 346 0.3% 24.9% 61.3% 12.4%
Action 2 173 0.0% 19.7% 69.9% 10.4%
Action 3 73 0.0% 12.3% 79.5% 5.5%
Action 4 33 0.0% 18.2% 72.7% 6.1%
Action 5 15 0.0% 13.3% 86.7% 0.0%
Action 6 6 0.0% 33.3% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 7 2 0.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.2% 1 of 648 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%
1.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 3. Merits outcomes: 0 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 2 reversed.

Full reversal rate
66.7% 2/3 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
100.0% 3/3 decisions
Median appeal duration
26.3 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Apr. 30, 2014 10/567,496 Reversed §102 · §103
Apr. 21, 2014 12/334,637 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Aug. 29, 2011 11/465,738 Reversed §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 Aug. 27, 2026.

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