Examiner Dhrasti Snehal Dalal

Grant ratio: 10.9% (53rd percentile in Art Unit 3796 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.29. Most common rejection type: §103.

Potentially inactive Last office action in data: June 2026
Grant ratio 10.9%
Average office actions / grant 1.29
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group About average
Compared with Technology center About average
Compared with USPTO About average

Examiner record

Examiner ID
100416
Primary art unit
3796
Work group
3790
Technology center
3700
Applications
64
Granted applications
7

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 20 15.3% 2.38
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 1.91 151 office actions across 79 applications
Applications with office actions 100.0% 79 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 0 0.0%
1 OA 38 48.1%
2 OAs 18 22.8%
3 OAs 17 21.5%
4 OAs 5 6.3%
5+ OAs 1 1.3%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2024: 50.0% 2024 2025: 15.8% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20242150.0%
202538615.8%
20262400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 79 0.0% 7.6% 89.9% 0.0%
Action 2 41 2.4% 4.9% 90.2% 0.0%
Action 3 23 0.0% 4.3% 91.3% 0.0%
Action 4 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 5 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.7% 1 of 151 office actions
All years 0.7% 1 of 151 office actions
Change 0.0 pts Percentage points

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

By year

2024: AI examples
0.0%
2025: August memo
0.0%
2.9%

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

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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