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Examiner Sana A Al Hashemi

TECH CENTER 2100 · 7 ART UNITS · 1,078 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 7 ART UNITS
83%vs 66% weighted peer average+17 pts

Examiner Sana A Al Hashemi has allowed 896 of 1,078 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed896abandoned182pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (66%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (7 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2156 · 81%AU 2164 · 78%AU 2165 · 98%AU 2162 · 88%AU 2171 · 71%AU 2169 · 78%AU 2161 · 88%
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What the data says.

Sana A Al Hashemi maintains an 83% allowance rate across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans 7 art units. Across these art units, allowance rates range from 71% to 98%, reflecting variation in the mix of applications and rejections encountered within each distinct art unit over the pooled period.

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How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates decisions across multiple art units within TC 2100. The 83% allowance rate describes past outcomes on decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and does not predict the outcome of any individual application. The range (71% to 98%) shows that different art units within the examiner's portfolio exhibit different allowance rates. Pooled figures describe historical performance, not forward-looking certainty.

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 2156
641 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 69%
DISPOSITION521 / 120 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION19.7 moart unit avg 20.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY41.7 moart unit avg 40.1 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 eligibility16%art unit 55%39 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)70%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness49%art unit 84%35 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness28%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW83%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW81%+2 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 169 decided applications with an interview and 472 without.

ART UNIT 2164
110 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

78% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION86 / 24 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.3 moart unit avg 22.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY53.4 moart unit avg 43.4 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW81%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW77%+4 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 32 decided applications with an interview and 78 without.

ART UNIT 2165
110 APPS · 98% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

98% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION108 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.2 moart unit avg 39.6 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 eligibility21%art unit 54%33 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)60%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness33%art unit 82%49 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness25%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW100%-6 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 32 decided applications with an interview and 78 without.

ART UNIT 2162
109 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

88% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION96 / 13 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.7 moart unit avg 23.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY35.4 moart unit avg 41.8 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 eligibility17%art unit 56%39 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)60%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness55%art unit 79%24 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness23%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW91%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW86%+5 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 44 decided applications with an interview and 65 without.

ART UNIT 2171
38 APPS · 71% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
71% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 56%
DISPOSITION27 / 11 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.8 moart unit avg 22 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY34.5 moart unit avg 37.2 mo
ART UNIT 2169
37 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

78% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION29 / 8 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.1 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY64.9 moart unit avg 40 mo
ART UNIT 2161
33 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

88% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION29 / 4 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.6 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.9 moart unit avg 39 mo
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Questions about Examiner Sana A Al Hashemi

  • What is Sana A Al Hashemi's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 83% across more than a thousand decided applications, pooled across all art units in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner has a public record across 7 art units: 2156, 2161, 2162, 2164, 2165, 2169, and 2171.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 71% to 98% across the examiner's art units, reflecting different outcomes within each art unit's portfolio.
  • Does the 83% rate apply to my application?
    No. The 83% figure describes past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sana A Al Hashemi 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: 1,078 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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