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Examiner Mohammad H Kabir

TECH CENTER 2100 · 5 ART UNITS · 449 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 5 ART UNITS
69%vs 74% weighted peer average5 pts

Examiner Mohammad H Kabir has allowed 309 of 449 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

309 allowed
140 abandoned
Plus 28 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (5 art units).
DATA UPDATED AUGUST 27, 2026
AU 2198 · 81%AU 2192 · 76%AU 2199 · 59%AU 2197 · 53%AU 2154 · 0%
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Outcomes over timemonths since first office action

grantedpendingabandoned
granted 56%abandoned 25%0%50%100%048mo36momonths since first office action
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Within 36 months of the first office action, 55.88% of Examiner Mohammad H Kabir's applications had been granted and 25.4% had been abandoned. This counts each application from its own first office action, so it covers a different population than the overall allowance rate above, which is measured across decided applications only.

Office actions per allowanceexaminer ● vs weighted peer average ○

Mailed office actions per allowed application
1.97
2.54

Counts mailed office actions on the merits — non-final and final — over this examiner's 309 allowed applications. A first-action allowance counts as zero, and a notice of allowance is not an office action.

The weighted peer average (1.97) blends the per-art-unit averages, weighted by this examiner's allowed applications in each: 2198 (1.74), 2192 (2.00), 2199 (2.12), 2197 (2.38). Art units are not included here if this measure has no published average, or if this examiner has no allowed applications there to weight it by. Each art-unit figure is the unweighted mean of the individual examiner values in that art unit — the peer-typical figure, not the art unit's own ratio.

What the data says.reading this examiner

Mohammad H Kabir maintains a pooled allowance rate of 69% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans 5 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications that resulted in allowance among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications—reflects his overall examination activity across these art units. Allowance rates across individual art units range from 53% to 81%, indicating variation in outcomes by subject matter and art unit.

Reading a pooled record.

This pooled record aggregates examination activity across multiple art units within TC 2100. The overall allowance rate of 69% describes the examiner's historical record across all decided applications in these art units combined. This aggregate figure is a description of past outcomes and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Different art units within the technology center show different allowance rates, and individual application outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and application-specific factors.

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 →

Appeals, stage by stagepre-appeal conference, then the Board

STAGE 1 · CONFERENCE50%44%36REQUESTSn = 36rates shown
16 of 36 proceed
+ 42 never asked
STAGE 2 · APPEAL58%18%11%78APPEALSn = 78rates shown
STAGE 1 · CONFERENCE OUTCOME · n = 36
  1. Prosecution reopened1850%
  2. Proceeded to appeal1644%
  3. Allowed at conference26%
STAGE 2 · APPEAL OUTCOME · n = 78
  1. Allowed4558%
  2. Reversed1418%
  3. Affirmed911%
  4. Abandoned56%
  5. Pending34%
  6. Affirmed in part23%

Appeal outcomes are counted from USPTO transaction records. Where an examiner has few appeals on record, these figures describe what happened in those cases and should not be read as a rate.

Categories report what happened to the appeal, not the application's final fate — most appeals resolve without a Board decision, and an application whose rejection the Board affirmed can still be granted afterward.

HOW TO READ THESE NUMBERS

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These figures describe outcomes already on the public record. They do not predict the outcome of any application and are not legal advice.

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Comparing across technology centers. Rejection-ground rates (§101, §102, §103, §112) track the subject matter a technology center examines, not examiner severity. Technology Center 2100's rates are comparable with other art units inside TC 2100 and are not comparable with rates from a different technology center.

Comparing examiners. An examiner's rates are shown here against the average for their art unit, which is the closest available comparison because art units group related subject matter. Comparisons get less reliable the further you move from that — between art units, and especially between technology centers, differences in subject matter, applicant population, and prior art make raw rate comparisons misleading. Where an examiner has few applications on record, small changes in the underlying data move the percentages a great deal.

Applications not counted. An application whose currently assigned examiner has moved to a USPTO business unit outside the examining technology centers is absent from this record, together with every office action on it — even where those actions issued while the application sat in an art unit shown here.

Coverage is incomplete. This site does not include every patent application. Applications that may not appear here include those examined in technology centers not listed on this site; those that moved elsewhere within the Office, such as to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on appeal, to central reexamination, to the Office of Petitions, or to design or plant examination; those never published, including applications filed with a nonpublication request and those abandoned before publication; provisional applications, which are not examined on the merits; anything filed or acted on after the refresh date above; and individual applications or office actions that the USPTO's public services did not return when we retrieved them. That list is illustrative, not exhaustive.

Counts may be low. The individual outcomes described here are matters of public record. The counts and rates computed from them are ours, and they are incomplete. Because of those gaps a count here may be lower than the true figure. We cannot state the size of the difference, and it is not uniform — one examiner's page may be close to complete while another's is materially short. Rates are computed from these same counts, so the uncertainty sits in both the numerator and the denominator. Do not treat a figure here as a count of record; verify against Patent Center, PatentsView, or the Patent Examination Data System before relying on it.

An absent figure. Where a figure is absent, we did not retrieve the underlying records. It does not mean the value is zero, and it does not mean the USPTO holds no such records.

Rejection-ground retrieval. Office-action rejection records are retrieved from the USPTO's office-action dataset in date-bounded batches sized so that each is returned whole in a single response. Retrieved this way, repeated pulls return the same set of records — the retrieval is reproducible. That is a property of our retrieval, not a guarantee that the USPTO dataset itself is complete; the coverage caveats above apply to these figures as to every other.

Compiled from USPTO records as published on August 27, 2026. Prosecution continues after that date and is not reflected here.

The record, art unit by art unit.5 art units

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 2198
154 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 36% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2198
AU avg 83%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2198; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 42 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition154 decided applications

125 allowed
29 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.4mo
disposed 42.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.8 mo, disposed 39.9 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
50%
56%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
68%
66%
§103 — Obviousness
88%
90%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
48%
37%

Interview benefit

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

without
83%
4 pts
with
79%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 71 decided applications with an interview and 83 without.

ART UNIT 2192
129 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines software engineering.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 48% of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2192
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2192; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 49 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 46 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition101 decided applications

77 allowed
24 abandoned
Plus 28 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.1mo
disposed 38.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 29.4 mo, disposed 45.1 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
47%
63%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
73%
79%
§103 — Obviousness
81%
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
45%
71%

Interview benefit

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

without
53%
+33 pts
with
86%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 71 decided applications with an interview and 30 without.

ART UNIT 2199
118 APPS · 59% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines software engineering, and program control and execution.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

59%
higher than about 21% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2199
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2199; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 30 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 28 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition118 decided applications

70 allowed
48 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.2mo
disposed 48mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.1 mo, disposed 41.9 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
47%
48%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
65%
95%
§103 — Obviousness
89%
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
55%
66%

Interview benefit

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

without
45%
+17 pts
with
62%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 98 decided applications with an interview and 20 without.

ART UNIT 2197
70 APPS · 53% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution, and software engineering.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

53%
higher than about 12% of the 33 examiners with published rates in art unit 2197
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 33 examiners with published rates in art unit 2197; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 41 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 33 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition70 decided applications

37 allowed
33 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.8mo
disposed 43.6mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.1 mo, disposed 44.2 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
54%
59%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
58%
86%
§103 — Obviousness
90%
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
50%
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
28%
+39 pts
with
67%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 45 decided applications with an interview and 25 without.

ART UNIT 2154
6 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

0%
higher than about 0% of the 67 examiners with published rates in art unit 2154
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 67 examiners with published rates in art unit 2154; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition6 decided applications

6 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 30.3mo
disposed 38.6mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 27.1 mo, disposed 42.7 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
54%
67%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
70%
67%
§103 — Obviousness
85%
83%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
38%
17%

Based on 6 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Mohammad H Kabir

  • What is Mohammad H Kabir's overall allowance rate?
    69% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units where he has examined.
  • How many art units does Mohammad H Kabir work in?
    5 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Do allowance rates vary across his art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates across individual art units range from 53% to 81%, reflecting variation by art unit subject matter and examination context.
  • Is the overall allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This figure describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mohammad H Kabir 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 August 27, 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: 477 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.

Office actions per allowance. Mailed office actions on the merits — non-final and final — averaged over this examiner's allowed applications. A first-action allowance counts as zero and is included; a notice of allowance is not an office action. The comparison figure is built the same way as the allowance-rate benchmark — from each art unit's own average for this measure — weighted here by this examiner's allowed applications in each art unit, since that is this measure's own denominator. Each art unit's figure is the unweighted mean of its examiners' individual values, so it is the peer-typical figure rather than the art unit's own ratio.

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