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Examiner Mohammad A Rahman

TECH CENTER 2100 · 4 ART UNITS · 186 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2020
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
75%vs 79% weighted peer average4 pts

Examiner Mohammad A Rahman has allowed 139 of 186 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed139abandoned47pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (79%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2115 · 71%AU 2116 · 79%AU 2125 · 74%AU 2121 · 100%
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What the data says.

Mohammad A Rahman maintains a pooled allowance rate of 75% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans four art units: 2115, 2116, 2121, and 2125. The allowance rate ranges from 71% to 79% across these art units. This aggregate figure reflects the examiner's historical disposition on decided applications (allowed and abandoned) pooled across all four art units and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's statistics across multiple art units, presenting an overall picture of past decisions. The allowance rate shown here is a historical average across all four art units combined and reflects past outcomes only. Individual art units may show different rates. This pooled figure describes the examiner's record in the aggregate and is not a forecast of the outcome in any specific pending application.

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 2115
97 APPS · 71% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems, and electric power networks.

71% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 81%
DISPOSITION69 / 28 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23 moart unit avg 25.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.3 moart unit avg 36.3 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 eligibility15%art unit 33%18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)69%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness74%art unit 83%9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness18%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW91%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW60%+31 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 35 decided applications with an interview and 62 without.

ART UNIT 2116
67 APPS · 79% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems.

79% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 78%
DISPOSITION53 / 14 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.3 moart unit avg 24.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.9 moart unit avg 37.7 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 eligibility39%art unit 32%+7 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)66%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 83%+12 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness47%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW86%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW67%+19 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 43 decided applications with an interview and 24 without.

ART UNIT 2125
19 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

74% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 75%
DISPOSITION14 / 5 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.5 moart unit avg 26.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.6 moart unit avg 39 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 eligibility28%art unit 51%23 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)78%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 88%+12 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness28%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 19 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2121
3 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

100% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 57%
DISPOSITION3 / 0 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20 moart unit avg 27 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY30.5 moart unit avg 39.9 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 eligibility100%art unit 46%+54 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)50%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 86%+14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness50%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 3 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Mohammad A Rahman

  • What is Mohammad A Rahman's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 75% across hundreds of decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Mohammad A Rahman has a public record spanning four art units in Technology Center 2100: 2115, 2116, 2121, and 2125.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across his art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 71% to 79% across the four art units in which he maintains a substantial record.
  • Is the pooled rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications and is not a prediction for any specific pending application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mohammad A Rahman 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: 186 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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