Examiner Puya Agahi

Grant ratio: 40.2% (56th percentile in Art Unit 3791 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 3.25. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 40.2%
Average office actions / grant 3.25
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
88348
Primary art unit
3791
Work group
3790
Technology center
3700
Applications
592
Granted applications
238
Examiner phone
(571) 270-1906
Supervisor
Alexander Valvis
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-4233

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 104 35.0% 2.08
Group 334 38.9% 2.25
Tech Center 2,671 48.4% 2.01
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 3.18 1,885 office actions across 592 applications
Applications with office actions 95.9% 568 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 24 4.1%
1 OA 124 20.9%
2 OAs 138 23.3%
3 OAs 84 14.2%
4 OAs 93 15.7%
5+ OAs 129 21.8%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2012: 25.0% 2012 2013: 70.0% 2013 2014: 33.3% 2014 2015: 28.6% 2015 2016: 31.6% 2016 2017: 44.2% 2017 2018: 54.0% 2018 2019: 48.6% 2019 2020: 61.7% 2020 2021: 62.2% 2021 2022: 59.5% 2022 2023: 45.5% 2023 2024: 33.3% 2024 2025: 10.5% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
201216425.0%
2013302170.0%
2014391333.3%
201528828.6%
2016571831.6%
2017431944.2%
2018502754.0%
2019371848.6%
2020603761.7%
2021452862.2%
2022372259.5%
2023221045.5%
202427933.3%
202538410.5%
20266300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 568 4.8% 5.6% 71.5% 4.9%
Action 2 444 14.0% 4.3% 65.1% 4.5%
Action 3 306 17.6% 2.6% 65.0% 3.6%
Action 4 222 20.3% 0.9% 70.3% 0.9%
Action 5 129 19.4% 1.6% 72.1% 2.3%
Action 6 95 25.3% 2.1% 65.3% 2.1%
Action 7 57 19.3% 0.0% 70.2% 3.5%
Action 8 35 20.0% 0.0% 77.1% 2.9%
Action 9 16 18.8% 0.0% 75.0% 0.0%
Action 10 10 30.0% 0.0% 50.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 16.5% 58 of 351 office actions
All years 13.8% 261 of 1,885 office actions
Change +2.7 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

2.4%
1.2%
2014: Alice
2.8%
14.1%
16.0%
17.9%
25.4%
2019: PEG
12.3%
13.8%
17.9%
20.2%
15.1%
2024: AI examples
11.7%
2025: August memo
20.9%
18.2%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 26. Merits outcomes: 16 affirmed, 1 affirmed in part, and 9 reversed.

Full reversal rate
34.6% 9/26 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
38.5% 10/26 decisions
Median appeal duration
12.4 months
New grounds of rejection
2
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 9, 2026 16/905,196 Affirmed New ground of rejection §101
Jun. 29, 2026 17/537,481 Reversed §101 · §103
Jun. 2, 2026 17/560,566 Reversed N/A
May. 29, 2026 17/474,668 Affirmed §101
Dec. 19, 2025 16/583,456 Reversed §103
Nov. 5, 2025 16/902,031 Reversed §102 · §103
Jul. 17, 2025 17/001,595 Reversed New ground of rejection §103
Jan. 28, 2025 16/180,602 Affirmed §101
Mar. 6, 2024 16/180,758 Affirmed §101
Feb. 26, 2024 15/067,104 Affirmed §101
Feb. 15, 2024 15/752,647 Affirmed §101
Dec. 20, 2022 15/751,354 Affirmed §101 · §102 · §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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