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Examiner Saba Ahmed

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 298 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
66%vs 58% art-unit average+8 pts

Examiner Saba Ahmed has allowed 196 of 298 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed196abandoned102pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Saba Ahmed maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's pooled allowance rate across decided applications is 66%. This figure represents the share of allowed applications among all decided matters (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The public record spans a single art unit and covers hundreds of decided applications. The allowance rate is a historical summary of outcomes on decided cases and does not predict the disposition of any specific pending application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's activity across all assigned art units within TC 2100. Aggregate allowance rates describe past outcomes on decided applications and reflect the examiner's historical record as a whole. They are correlational summaries, not causal predictors. A pooled rate does not forecast the result of any individual application and does not account for differences in claim scope, prior art, or prosecution history among cases.

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 2154
298 APPS · 66% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

66% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION196 / 102 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.4 moart unit avg 27.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.1 moart unit avg 41.9 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 eligibility73%art unit 55%+18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)53%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness86%art unit 87%1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness27%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW75%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW49%+26 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 195 decided applications with an interview and 103 without.

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Questions about Examiner Saba Ahmed

  • What is Examiner Ahmed's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 66% across hundreds of decided applications pooled over the examiner's record in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans 1 art unit (art unit 2154) within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. Pooled allowance rates describe historical outcomes on decided cases and are not predictions of any specific pending application.
  • What does 'hundreds of decided applications' mean?
    The 66% allowance rate is calculated from hundreds of applications that have been decided (allowed or abandoned), excluding any pending applications.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Saba Ahmed 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: 298 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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