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Examiner Amir Mehrmanesh

TECH CENTER 2400 · 4 ART UNITS · 492 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
87%vs 76% weighted peer average+11 pts

Examiner Amir Mehrmanesh has allowed 428 of 492 decided applications.

428 allowed
Plus 2 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (76%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2497 · 90%AU 2496 · 91%AU 2438 · 68%AU 2435

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Amir Mehrmanesh maintains a pooled allowance rate of 87% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans four art units: 2435, 2438, 2496, and 2497. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications—ranges from 68% to 91% across these art units. This range reflects variation in outcomes across the different art units in which the examiner has maintained a substantial record. The pooled figure of 87% represents an aggregate across all four art units.

How to read these numbers.

This record is a pooled aggregate across multiple art units and describes the examiner's past decisions on allowed and abandoned applications. Pooled figures do not predict outcomes in any specific application. Allowance rate measures the share of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned, excluding pending cases) that were allowed. The range shown reflects the lowest and highest allowance rates among the examiner's art units; it is presented as context for the pooled record and does not indicate performance in any particular art unit.

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The record, art unit by art unit.4 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 2497
222 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

90%
higher than about 48% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2497
AU avg 84%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2497; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 28 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 27 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition222 decided applications

199 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.3mo
disposed 25.2mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.1 mo, disposed 31.7 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 43
31%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
74%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
63%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
34%

Interview benefit

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

without
81%
+14 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 133 decided applications with an interview and 89 without.

ART UNIT 2496
198 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 82% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496
AU avg 67%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 35 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 34 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition198 decided applications

180 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.4mo
disposed 32.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.6 mo, disposed 36.2 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
35%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
44%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 91
83%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
33%

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 95 decided applications with an interview and 103 without.

ART UNIT 2438
72 APPS · 68% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

68%
higher than about 11% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition72 decided applications

49 allowed
23 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 36.1mo
disposed 50.3mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.7 mo, disposed 38.3 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 52
60%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
10%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
90%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
59%
+23 pts
with
82%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 28 decided applications with an interview and 44 without.

ART UNIT 2435
2 APPS · LIMITED DATA

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.6mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.8 mo, disposed 41.4 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
50%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
100%

Based on 2 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Amir Mehrmanesh

  • What is Examiner Mehrmanesh's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 87% across hundreds of decided applications. This is the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in his record.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's record spans four art units: 2435, 2438, 2496, and 2497, all within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 91% across the examiner's art units. This range reflects variation in outcomes in different art units, and the pooled 87% is an aggregate across all four.
  • What does this allowance rate mean for my application?
    The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Each application is examined on its own merits.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Amir Mehrmanesh 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: 494 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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