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Examiner Kurosu R Altaf

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 52 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
96%vs 84% art-unit average+12 pts

Examiner Kurosu R Altaf has allowed 50 of 52 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed50abandoned2pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Examiner Kurosu R Altaf holds a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 96%. This rate reflects the share of applications that issued as allowed, among all applications with final dispositions (allowed and abandoned). The examiner's work spans one art unit. These figures represent the examiner's historical pooled record and are descriptive of past outcomes only.

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This profile aggregates the examiner's decisions across all art units in TC 2100 into a single pooled record. The allowance rate shown is a historical average of decided applications and does not predict the outcome of any specific application. Pooled figures smooth variation across different art units and reflect overall patterns, not unit-specific practices. Individual art-unit records appear separately on this page.

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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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 2114
52 APPS · 96% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines error detection, correction, and monitoring.

96% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 84%
DISPOSITION50 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION17.7 moart unit avg 23.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY25.7 moart unit avg 35.4 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 eligibility29%art unit 34%5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)67%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness86%art unit 74%+12 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness69%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW100%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW91%+9 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 29 decided applications with an interview and 23 without.

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Questions about Examiner Kurosu R Altaf

  • What is Examiner Altaf's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate across decided applications is 96%, pooled across all art units in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Examiner Altaf works in one art unit within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate apply to my application?
    No. This rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What is the sample size for these figures?
    The allowance rate is based on dozens of decided applications, pooled across the examiner's art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kurosu R Altaf 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: 52 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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