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Examiner Farhad Agharahimi

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 305 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
73%vs 62% art-unit average+11 pts

Examiner Farhad Agharahimi has allowed 222 of 305 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed222abandoned83pending37· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Farhad Agharahimi maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His pooled allowance rate across decided applications is 73%. This rate reflects applications that were allowed or abandoned, excluding pending matters. The record spans a single art unit. The 73% figure is computed from hundreds of decided applications and represents the share of those applications that resulted in allowance rather than abandonment.

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This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art unit(s) in TC 2100. The allowance rate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Aggregate figures mask variation by art unit and do not forecast the path or result of any individual case. The data reflects historical disposition patterns only.

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 2161
342 APPS · 73% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

73% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION222 / 83 / 37allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.4 moart unit avg 39 mo
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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 eligibility42%art unit 52%10 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)82%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 88%+5 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness39%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW78%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW68%+10 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 147 decided applications with an interview and 158 without.

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Questions about Examiner Farhad Agharahimi

  • What is Farhad Agharahimi's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 73%, computed as the percentage of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that were allowed, across hundreds of decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does this pooled rate apply to my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes past outcomes across many applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What technology does TC 2100 cover?
    Technology Center 2100 covers Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Farhad Agharahimi 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: 342 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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