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Examiner Sazzad Hossain

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 331 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JAN 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 79% weighted peer average+5 pts

Examiner Sazzad Hossain has allowed 279 of 331 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed279abandoned52pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (79%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2111 · 88%AU 2117 · 68%
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What the data says.

Sazzad Hossain maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His pooled allowance rate stands at 84% across hundreds of decided applications. This rate reflects the share of applications in which a final disposition—either allowance or abandonment—has been reached. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 88% across his art units, indicating variation in outcomes by subject matter within the technology center.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates results from multiple art units within TC 2100. The 84% figure describes past outcomes across all decided applications handled by this examiner, not a prediction for any individual application. Pooled data masks differences between art units; breakdowns by specific art unit appear elsewhere on this page. Historical rates do not predict the outcome of any pending or future application.

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 2111
272 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE
88% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 80%
DISPOSITION239 / 33 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION16.1 moart unit avg 20.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY30.5 moart unit avg 31.7 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 eligibility44%art unit 21%+23 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)62%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness82%art unit 72%+10 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness65%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW71%+23 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 195 decided applications with an interview and 77 without.

ART UNIT 2117
59 APPS · 68% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems.

68% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 74%
DISPOSITION40 / 19 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION15.4 moart unit avg 20.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY28.5 moart unit avg 33.2 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 eligibility38%art unit 33%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)41%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness79%art unit 78%+1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness55%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW85%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW44%+41 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 34 decided applications with an interview and 25 without.

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Questions about Examiner Sazzad Hossain

  • What is Sazzad Hossain's overall allowance rate?
    84%, based on decided applications across his art units in TC 2100.
  • How many art units has this examiner worked in?
    2 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • How much does the allowance rate vary across his art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 88% across his art units.
  • What does the 84% rate mean for my application?
    This rate describes historical outcomes only 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 Sazzad Hossain 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: 331 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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