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Examiner Akash Saxena

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 617 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
47%vs 55% weighted peer average8 pts

Examiner Akash Saxena has allowed 290 of 617 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed290abandoned327pending44· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (55%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2128 · 40%AU 2188 · 71%AU 2147 · 47%
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What the data says.

Examiner Akash Saxena maintains a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the pooled allowance rate is 47%. This rate represents the share of applications in which a final allowance or abandonment was reached, excluding pending matters. The allowance rate across the examiner's art units ranges from 40% to 71%, reflecting variation in outcomes by individual art unit. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's work across all assigned art units and describes the historical record only.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled allowance rate combines results from multiple art units into a single aggregate figure. This reflects the examiner's overall pattern across their assigned subject-matter areas. The aggregate rate describes what occurred in past decided applications and is not a prediction about any specific application. Individual art-unit records, which may differ from the pooled rate, are published separately. Applicants may examine both the pooled record and per-art-unit detail to understand the examiner's history.

These are aggregate statistics from this examiner's past public record — not predictions about any specific application. The per-art-unit figures below show how the record varies across art units. Our approach to patent prosecution →

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The record, art unit by art unit.

Each section benchmarks this examiner against that art unit's average. Figures are this examiner's own public record within the art unit; the overall rate above pools them.

◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2128
395 APPS · 40% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines machine learning, and neural-network / biological-model computing.

40% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION157 / 238 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION30.5 moart unit avg 30 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY58.4 moart unit avg 46.5 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility57%art unit 66%9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)77%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness78%art unit 84%6 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness75%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW58%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW29%+29 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 146 decided applications with an interview and 249 without.

ART UNIT 2188
163 APPS · 71% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

71% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION85 / 34 / 44allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION31.8 moart unit avg 26.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY47.6 moart unit avg 39.7 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility66%art unit 55%+11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)83%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness85%art unit 75%+10 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness73%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW75%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW64%+11 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 77 decided applications with an interview and 42 without.

ART UNIT 2147
103 APPS · 47% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

47% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 44%
DISPOSITION48 / 55 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.6 moart unit avg 29.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY51.5 moart unit avg 46.8 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility74%art unit 75%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)87%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness84%art unit 86%2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness77%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW57%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW26%+31 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 69 decided applications with an interview and 34 without.

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Questions about Examiner Akash Saxena

  • What is Examiner Saxena's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 47%, representing the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined, excluding pending) across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Examiner Saxena maintains a public record across 3 art units within TC 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 40% to 71% across the examiner's art units. Individual art-unit records are published separately.
  • What does the 47% rate tell me about my application?
    The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. It describes past decided applications only.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Akash Saxena has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 14, 2026. The overall allowance rate is total allowed divided by total decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across all art units — not an average of the per-art-unit rates; pending applications are excluded. Figures are rounded for display. Pooled sample: 661 applications.

Rejection rates. Each §-rate is the share of this examiner's applications that drew at least one office-action rejection in which that statutory ground appears; applications with no rejection on record are excluded, and because grounds can co-occur the four do not sum to 100%. The art-unit figure beside each is the unweighted mean of the per-examiner rates across the art unit, published for §101 and §103 only. Beside the overall allowance rate we show a benchmark: for a single-art-unit examiner it is exactly that art unit's average, labeled “art-unit average”; for an examiner spanning several art units it is the “weighted peer average” — the per-art-unit averages, weighted by this examiner's application count in each — labeled distinctly because it is a blended figure, not any single art unit's average. Both are built from the same per-art-unit averages the panels show.

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