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Examiner Selene Haedi

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 126 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2023
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
75%vs 54% weighted peer average+21 pts

Examiner Selene Haedi has allowed 95 of 126 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed95abandoned31pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (54%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2128 · 81%AU 2121 · 64%
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What the data says.

Examiner Selene Haedi maintains a public record across 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 75%—the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the pooled record. The allowance rate ranges from 64% to 81% across these art units, reflecting variation in the examiner's record by subject area within the technology center.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's decisions across multiple art units in TC 2100. The overall allowance rate of 75% describes past outcomes across all decided applications in the examiner's caseload. This aggregate figure is a historical snapshot, not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Individual art units may show different rates; those details appear separately.

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 2128
84 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines machine learning, and neural-network / biological-model computing.

81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION68 / 16 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.3 moart unit avg 30 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.1 moart unit avg 46.5 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 eligibility49%art unit 66%17 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)81%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness82%art unit 84%2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness69%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW84%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW74%+10 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 61 decided applications with an interview and 23 without.

ART UNIT 2121
42 APPS · 64% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

64% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 57%
DISPOSITION27 / 15 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION29.1 moart unit avg 27 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY43.6 moart unit avg 39.9 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 eligibility23%art unit 46%23 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)97%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 86%+11 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness56%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 42 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Selene Haedi

  • What is this examiner's allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 75%, representing the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed across the examiner's pooled record in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 64% to 81% across the examiner's art units, showing variation in the record by subject area.
  • Is the 75% allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The 75% figure is a historical aggregate across hundreds of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Selene Haedi 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: 126 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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