Examiner Khaled Annis

Grant ratio: 53.8% (54th percentile in Art Unit 3765 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.79. Most common rejection type: §103.

Potentially inactive Last office action in data: May 2026
Grant ratio 53.8%
Average office actions / grant 1.79
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
87311
Primary art unit
3765
Work group
3760
Technology center
3700
Applications
896
Granted applications
482

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 31 47.5% 1.96
Group 384 48.9% 2.11
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.77 1,584 office actions across 896 applications
Applications with office actions 99.7% 893 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 3 0.3%
1 OA 503 56.1%
2 OAs 247 27.6%
3 OAs 77 8.6%
4 OAs 29 3.2%
5+ OAs 37 4.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2010: 0.0% 2010 2011: 23.1% 2011 2012: 29.9% 2012 2013: 51.9% 2013 2014: 43.5% 2014 2015: 54.1% 2015 2016: 50.7% 2016 2017: 49.2% 2017 2018: 68.2% 2018 2019: 53.8% 2019 2020: 66.7% 2020 2021: 72.9% 2021 2022: 67.4% 2022 2023: 76.4% 2023 2024: 71.9% 2024 2025: 51.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2010500.0%
201139923.1%
2012672029.9%
2013542851.9%
2014693043.5%
2015744054.1%
2016733750.7%
2017633149.2%
2018664568.2%
2019392153.8%
2020724866.7%
2021483572.9%
2022463167.4%
2023554276.4%
2024574171.9%
2025472451.1%
20262200.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 893 0.8% 13.8% 76.5% 5.2%
Action 2 390 0.0% 9.5% 86.2% 3.1%
Action 3 143 0.0% 7.7% 86.0% 3.5%
Action 4 66 0.0% 4.5% 93.9% 1.5%
Action 5 37 0.0% 5.4% 89.2% 5.4%
Action 6 20 0.0% 5.0% 95.0% 0.0%
Action 7 12 0.0% 25.0% 75.0% 0.0%
Action 8 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 9 3 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.6% 3 of 191 office actions
All years 0.4% 7 of 1,584 office actions
Change +1.1 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%
0.0%
2014: Alice
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
3.1%
2.3%
2024: AI examples
1.3%
2025: August memo
1.7%
3.7%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 27. Merits outcomes: 5 affirmed, 4 affirmed in part, and 18 reversed.

Full reversal rate
66.7% 18/27 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
81.5% 22/27 decisions
Median appeal duration
24.3 months
New grounds of rejection
3
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Dec. 19, 2024 17/456,640 Affirmed in part §102 · §103
Jun. 7, 2024 17/287,107 Reversed §102 · §103
May. 3, 2021 15/483,345 Reversed New ground of rejection §102 · §103
Jul. 30, 2020 15/389,467 Reversed §102 · §103 · §112
Jun. 18, 2020 14/772,497 Reversed §102 · §103
Dec. 31, 2018 14/739,323 Affirmed §103 · §112
Oct. 30, 2018 14/051,980 Affirmed in part New ground of rejection §102 · §103 · §112
Sep. 28, 2018 13/712,768 Reversed §103
Jul. 27, 2018 12/910,187 Reversed N/A
Jul. 10, 2018 13/342,872 Reversed §103 · §112
Mar. 7, 2018 12/938,447 Reversed §103 · §112
Dec. 13, 2017 13/604,882 Reversed New ground of rejection §103 · §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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