Examiner Amit K. Singh

Grant ratio: 35.7% (16th percentile in Art Unit 3742 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.63. Most common rejection type: §103.

Appears inactive Last office action in data: March 2018
Grant ratio 35.7%
Average office actions / grant 2.63
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
88261
Primary art unit
3742
Work group
3740
Technology center
3700
Applications
227
Granted applications
81

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 39 52.5% 2.19
Group 444 57.6% 1.86
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.76 798 office actions across 289 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 289 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 89 30.8%
2 OAs 83 28.7%
3 OAs 31 10.7%
4 OAs 40 13.8%
5+ OAs 46 15.9%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 37.5% 2012 2013: 6.7% 2013 2014: 21.4% 2014 2015: 33.3% 2015 2016: 45.7% 2016 2017: 52.9% 2017 2018: 36.4% 2018

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201216637.5%
20133026.7%
201428621.4%
2015451533.3%
2016462145.7%
2017512752.9%
201811436.4%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 289 0.0% 4.5% 84.8% 5.9%
Action 2 200 0.5% 2.0% 86.5% 8.5%
Action 3 117 0.0% 0.0% 90.6% 7.7%
Action 4 86 0.0% 1.2% 90.7% 4.7%
Action 5 46 0.0% 0.0% 95.7% 2.2%
Action 6 30 0.0% 3.3% 90.0% 6.7%
Action 7 15 0.0% 0.0% 86.7% 13.3%
Action 8 10 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years N/A 0 of 0 office actions
All years 0.1% 1 of 798 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%
0.7%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 13. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 7 reversed.

Full reversal rate
53.8% 7/13 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
61.5% 8/13 decisions
Median appeal duration
21.7 months
New grounds of rejection
2
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Mar. 2, 2021 13/270,431 Affirmed §103 · §112
Oct. 2, 2019 13/392,458 Reversed §103
Jan. 17, 2019 13/391,165 Reversed §103
Mar. 30, 2018 13/167,184 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
Nov. 29, 2017 12/440,523 Affirmed §103
Oct. 31, 2017 12/599,782 Affirmed §103
Oct. 12, 2017 13/316,651 Reversed §103
Aug. 30, 2017 13/193,891 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
Aug. 18, 2017 13/676,845 Affirmed New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Jul. 18, 2017 13/231,556 Reversed §103
Jul. 7, 2017 11/769,261 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §103 · §112
Dec. 30, 2016 12/394,516 Affirmed §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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