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Examiner Abdeltif Ajid

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 393 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
78%vs 71% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Abdeltif Ajid has allowed 308 of 393 decided applications.

308 allowed
85 abandoned
Plus 40 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (71%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2478 · 80%AU 2475 · 68%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Abdeltif Ajid maintains a public record across two art units within Technology Center 2400. His pooled allowance rate stands at 78% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned; pending applications are excluded). This rate is calculated across hundreds of decided applications. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 80% across his art units, reflecting variation in outcomes within his assigned subject areas.

How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units, presenting a pooled profile rather than unit-specific data. The overall allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome of any particular application. Per-art-unit detail appears in separate sections. Pooled figures offer perspective on the examiner's aggregate practice but do not indicate how any single case will be examined.

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.2 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 2478
383 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 54% 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.

Disposition343 decided applications

274 allowed
69 abandoned
Plus 40 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.7mo
disposed 39.2mo
0
48mo
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
14%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
89%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
86%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
32%

Interview benefit

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

without
74%
+13 pts
with
87%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 156 decided applications with an interview and 187 without.

ART UNIT 2475
50 APPS · 68% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

68%
higher than about 28% of the 40 examiners with published rates in art unit 2475
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 40 examiners with published rates in art unit 2475; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition50 decided applications

34 allowed
16 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.6mo
disposed 38.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.6 mo, disposed 38.1 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
9%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
72%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
28%

Interview benefit

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

without
62%
+10 pts
with
72%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 29 decided applications with an interview and 21 without.

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Questions about Examiner Abdeltif Ajid

  • What is the examiner's overall allowance rate?
    Examiner Ajid's pooled allowance rate is 78% of decided applications across hundreds of applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans two art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 80% across the examiner's art units.
  • Does the pooled rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes historical outcomes and is not a prediction of the disposition of any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Abdeltif Ajid 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: 433 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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