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Examiner Nadeem Iqbal

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,468 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
93%vs 84% weighted peer average+9 pts

Examiner Nadeem Iqbal has allowed 1,358 of 1,468 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed1,358abandoned110pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (84%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2114 · 93%AU 2184 · 90%
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What the data says.

Examiner Nadeem Iqbal maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning 2 art units. Across more than a thousand decided applications, the allowance rate is 93%. The allowance rate ranges from 90% to 93% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of applications in the examiner's decided record (allowed and abandoned applications; pending applications are excluded) that were allowed. The record reflects outcomes on applications already concluded and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

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This profile aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units within TC 2100. Pooled allowance rates describe past outcomes across decided applications and reflect the examiner's historical record, not predictive metrics for individual applications. Different art units within a single technology center may involve distinct subject matter and examination patterns. The range shown reflects variation among the art units represented in this examiner's record.

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 2114
1,447 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines error detection, correction, and monitoring.

93% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 84%
DISPOSITION1339 / 108 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.2 moart unit avg 23.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY30.5 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 eligibility25%art unit 34%9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)63%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness50%art unit 74%24 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness30%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW99%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW92%+7 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 167 decided applications with an interview and 1,280 without.

ART UNIT 2184
21 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines interconnection and data transfer between memory, I/O, and processing units.

90% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 78%
DISPOSITION19 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION13.4 moart unit avg 20.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY19.8 moart unit avg 31.7 mo
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Questions about Examiner Nadeem Iqbal

  • What is the overall allowance rate for Examiner Iqbal?
    The allowance rate is 93%, calculated across more than a thousand decided applications (allowed and abandoned; pending applications excluded).
  • How many art units does Examiner Iqbal work in?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 90% to 93% across the art units in which the examiner has a substantial record.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Nadeem Iqbal 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: 1,468 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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