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Examiner Ahmed Elallam

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 805 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
92%vs 86% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Ahmed Elallam has allowed 739 of 805 decided applications.

739 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (86%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2471 · 93%AU 2416 · 68%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ahmed Elallam maintains an allowance rate of 92% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 93% across these art units, reflecting variation in the mix of applications and outcomes within each unit. This pooled figure represents the share of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—in his public record. The range indicates differences in allowance patterns across the specific art units where he has examined applications.

How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates outcomes from multiple art units into a single pooled allowance rate. Pooled figures describe an examiner's historical record across all their art units combined and are not predictions about any specific application or art unit. Individual art-unit data, where available separately, may show different allowance rates. A pooled rate reflects the examiner's overall pattern but does not determine outcomes in any particular case.

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 2471
767 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

93%
higher than about 78% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition767 decided applications

713 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.7mo
disposed 28.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 32.5 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 22
21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
38%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 71
48%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
60%

Interview benefit

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

without
93%
+2 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 120 decided applications with an interview and 647 without.

ART UNIT 2416
38 APPS · 68% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

68%
higher than about 58% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition38 decided applications

26 allowed
12 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 37.6mo
disposed 54.3mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 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
100%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
100%

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

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Ahmed Elallam

  • What is Ahmed Elallam's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 92% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Ahmed Elallam's public record spans 2 art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across his art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates range from 68% to 93% across the art units in which he has a substantial record.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate mean?
    The pooled rate combines outcomes from all his art units and describes his historical record. It 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 Ahmed Elallam 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: 805 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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