Examiner Aya Ziad Bakkar

Grant ratio: 44.2% (92nd percentile in Art Unit 3796 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.52. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 44.2%
Average office actions / grant 2.52
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
95642
Primary art unit
3796
Work group
3790
Technology center
3700
Applications
233
Granted applications
103
Examiner phone
(313) 446-6659

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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 2.30 535 office actions across 233 applications
Applications with office actions 98.3% 229 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 4 1.7%
1 OA 99 42.5%
2 OAs 50 21.5%
3 OAs 32 13.7%
4 OAs 27 11.6%
5+ OAs 21 9.0%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2020: 50.0% 2020 2021: 69.7% 2021 2022: 50.0% 2022 2023: 72.7% 2023 2024: 52.9% 2024 2025: 25.9% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20202150.0%
2021332369.7%
2022422150.0%
2023332472.7%
2024512752.9%
202527725.9%
20264500.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 229 0.9% 7.9% 78.2% 10.0%
Action 2 130 3.1% 8.5% 86.2% 1.5%
Action 3 80 0.0% 3.8% 91.3% 2.5%
Action 4 48 0.0% 6.3% 89.6% 4.2%
Action 5 21 0.0% 4.8% 95.2% 0.0%
Action 6 16 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 7 0.0% 0.0% 85.7% 0.0%
Action 8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.5% 4 of 272 office actions
All years 1.1% 6 of 535 office actions
Change +0.3 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%
1.0%
1.1%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
1.0%
2025: August memo
1.4%
3.5%

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

PTAB appeals

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

Full reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
0.0% 0/1 decisions
Median appeal duration
3.2 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Jul. 28, 2025 17/264,176 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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