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Examiner Osman M Alshack

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 537 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
87%vs 89% art-unit average2 pts

Examiner Osman M Alshack has allowed 467 of 537 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed467abandoned70pending48· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Examiner Osman M Alshack maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning 1 art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 87%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's pooled record. The allowance rate is calculated from applications with final dispositions and does not include pending applications. This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across all art units in TC 2100.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines data from all art units an examiner handles. The 87% allowance rate describes historical outcomes across hundreds of decided applications and reflects past dispositions only. This aggregate figure is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Different art units within TC 2100 may have different characteristics, and individual application results vary based on claim scope, prior art, and prosecution history. The pooled allowance rate provides context for the examiner's overall record but does not forecast results in any particular case.

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 2112
585 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines error detection, correction, and monitoring, and error-correcting coding/decoding.

87% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 89%
DISPOSITION467 / 70 / 48allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION17.6 moart unit avg 21.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY30.3 moart unit avg 31.8 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 eligibility35%art unit 24%+11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)34%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness85%art unit 58%+27 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness63%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW93%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW80%+13 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 293 decided applications with an interview and 244 without.

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Questions about Examiner Osman M Alshack

  • What is Examiner Alshack's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 87%, representing the share of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) in the examiner's pooled record across hundreds of applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the 87% rate apply to my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes historical outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application. Individual results depend on claim language, prior art, and prosecution conduct.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Osman M Alshack 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: 585 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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