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Examiner Usmaan Saeed

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 211 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
50%vs 58% weighted peer average8 pts

Examiner Usmaan Saeed has allowed 106 of 211 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed106abandoned105pending16· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (58%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2166 · 55%AU 2169 · 18%AU 2146 · 86%
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What the data says.

Examiner Usmaan Saeed maintains a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 50%. This aggregate figure reflects outcomes in allowed and abandoned applications within the examiner's assigned art units. The allowance rate ranges from 18% to 86% across these art units, indicating variation in outcomes by specific art unit. This pooled record represents historical dispositions and does not predict outcomes in any individual application.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units within TC 2100. The pooled allowance rate represents the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) historically allowed, calculated across all assigned art units together. The range shown reflects the variation in allowance rates among those individual art units. Pooled figures describe the examiner's past record and are not predictions about any specific application or art unit.

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 2166
159 APPS · 55% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

55% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION87 / 72 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.4 moart unit avg 23.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY60.6 moart unit avg 45 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 eligibility45%art unit 44%+1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)18%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness64%art unit 81%17 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness9%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW80%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW31%+49 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 76 decided applications with an interview and 83 without.

ART UNIT 2169
38 APPS · 18% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

18% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION7 / 31 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.2 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY57.4 moart unit avg 40 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 eligibility54%art unit 57%3 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)60%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 88%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness49%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 38 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2146
30 APPS · 86% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

86% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 50%
DISPOSITION12 / 2 / 16allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION29.4 moart unit avg 32 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY37.8 moart unit avg 45 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 eligibility83%art unit 71%+12 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)63%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness88%art unit 91%3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness67%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 30 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Usmaan Saeed

  • What is Examiner Saeed's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate across all assigned art units is 50% of decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Saeed has a public record spanning 3 art units in TC 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 18% to 86% across the examiner's assigned art units.
  • How large is the sample of decided applications?
    The pooled record includes hundreds of decided applications across all art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Usmaan Saeed 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: 227 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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