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Examiner Abdelnabi O Musa

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 1,181 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
85%vs 80% weighted peer average+5 pts

Examiner Abdelnabi O Musa has allowed 1,003 of 1,181 decided applications.

1,003 allowed
178 abandoned
Plus 54 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (80%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2472 · 92%AU 2478 · 65%AU 2446 · 36%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Abdelnabi O Musa maintains a pooled allowance rate of 85% across decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His public record spans 3 art units within this technology center, with a decided-application portfolio of more than a thousand cases. The allowance rate across his art units ranges from 36% to 92%, reflecting variation in outcomes by subject matter and art-unit assignment. This aggregate figure represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) across his entire record in TC 2400.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units and does not separate outcomes by individual art-unit assignment. The overall allowance rate describes the examiner's historical decided-application record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Variation in rates across art units reflects different subject matter and application patterns within each unit, and pooled figures represent a historical aggregate only.

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 →

The record, art unit by art unit.3 art units

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 2472
1,005 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

92%
higher than about 67% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472
AU avg 83%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 47 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 45 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition951 decided applications

873 allowed
Plus 54 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.6mo
disposed 28.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.3 mo, disposed 35.1 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 22
28%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
85%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
79%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
53%

Interview benefit

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

without
85%
+12 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 525 decided applications with an interview and 426 without.

ART UNIT 2478
164 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

65%
higher than about 31% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition164 decided applications

106 allowed
58 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 32.7mo
disposed 60.6mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.7 mo, disposed 42.7 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 25
19%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
88%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
36%

Interview benefit

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

without
49%
+39 pts
with
88%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 66 decided applications with an interview and 98 without.

ART UNIT 2446
66 APPS · 36% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

36%
higher than about 19% of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition66 decided applications

24 allowed
42 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.4mo
disposed 56.9mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 26 mo, disposed 41.9 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 32
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
67%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 76
67%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Interview benefit

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

without
15%
+44 pts
with
59%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 32 decided applications with an interview and 34 without.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Abdelnabi O Musa

  • What is Examiner Musa's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 85%, calculated as the share of allowed and abandoned applications among all decided applications, pooled across his art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Musa has a substantial record across 3 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 36% to 92% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation in outcomes by unit and subject matter.
  • How large is the sample size for these figures?
    The pooled record covers more than a thousand decided applications across all art units in TC 2400.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Abdelnabi O Musa has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 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: 1,235 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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