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Examiner Adnan M Mirza

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 939 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
87%vs 68% weighted peer average+19 pts

Examiner Adnan M Mirza has allowed 813 of 939 decided applications.

813 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (68%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2443 · 87%AU 2453 · 91%AU 2445 · 68%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Adnan M Mirza maintains a public record spanning 3 art units within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 87%, representing the share of applications allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) cases. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 91% across these art units. This range reflects variation in outcomes within the examiner's assignment across different art-unit portfolios. The pooled figure aggregates this work and provides an overall snapshot of the examiner's record in TC 2400.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled allowance rate aggregates outcomes across multiple art units into a single percentage. This figure describes historical outcomes on decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and excludes pending cases. The range shown reflects the lowest and highest allowance rates among the art units in the examiner's record. Pooled figures do not predict outcomes on any specific application; they are summaries of past decisions and do not account for differences in application facts, claim scope, or prior art.

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 2443
735 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 67% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition735 decided applications

643 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.1mo
disposed 36mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.1 mo, disposed 40.7 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 37
26%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
55%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
63%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
11%

Interview benefit

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

without
85%
+10 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 175 decided applications with an interview and 560 without.

ART UNIT 2453
136 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 75% of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition136 decided applications

124 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 11mo
disposed 21.1mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.4 mo, disposed 47.5 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 43
12%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
32%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
63%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
1%

Interview benefit

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

without
89%
+8 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 36 decided applications with an interview and 100 without.

ART UNIT 2445
68 APPS · 68% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

68%
higher than about 53% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445
AU avg 60%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition68 decided applications

46 allowed
22 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 43.1mo
disposed 67mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.6 mo, disposed 47.1 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 40
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
0%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Interview benefit

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

without
63%
+16 pts
with
79%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 19 decided applications with an interview and 49 without.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Adnan M Mirza

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 87% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 3 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 91% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation in outcomes within the different portfolios.
  • Does the pooled rate predict outcomes on my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes past decisions on decided applications 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 Adnan M Mirza 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: 939 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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