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Examiner Asad M Nawaz

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 125 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
54%vs 64% weighted peer average10 pts

Examiner Asad M Nawaz has allowed 68 of 125 decided applications.

68 allowed
57 abandoned
Plus 30 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2455 · 55%AU 2463 · 94%AU 2468 · 16%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Asad M Nawaz maintains a pooled allowance rate of 54% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans three art units: 2455, 2463, and 2468. The allowance rate—the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned, with pending applications excluded) that resulted in allowance—reflects his aggregated decisions across these art units. The allowance rates among his art units range from 55% to 94%, indicating variation in outcomes across different subject-matter areas within the technology center. This pooled figure represents the examiner's historical record and does not indicate the outcome of any particular application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's decisions across multiple art units within TC 2400. The overall allowance rate reflects historical decisions on applications that reached a final disposition (allowed or abandoned). Because the record combines different art units, the pooled figure describes the examiner's past decisions in aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. The range of allowance rates across individual art units demonstrates that outcomes vary by subject matter. Pooled statistics describe what has occurred, not what will occur in any single 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.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 2455
88 APPS · 55% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

55%
higher than about 29% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 42 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 41 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition88 decided applications

48 allowed
40 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 36mo
disposed 60.4mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 41.5 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 38
60%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
73%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
60%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
37%
+53 pts
with
90%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 29 decided applications with an interview and 59 without.

ART UNIT 2463
48 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

94%
higher than about 85% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2463
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2463; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition18 decided applications

17 allowed
Plus 30 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.1mo
disposed 34.1mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.2 mo, disposed 36.3 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 21
21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
87%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
90%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
18%

Based on 48 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2468
19 APPS · 16% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

16%
higher than about 17% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2468
AU avg 61%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2468; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition19 decided applications

3 allowed
16 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 33.3mo
disposed 61.2mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.4 mo, disposed 41.5 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 21
28%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
61%

Based on 19 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Asad M Nawaz

  • What is Asad M Nawaz's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 54% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This represents the percentage of applications that received a final allowance among all applications with a final disposition (allowed or abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Asad M Nawaz works across three art units: 2455, 2463, and 2468, all within TC 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    The allowance rates among his art units range from 55% to 94%. This variation reflects differences in outcomes across the different subject-matter areas he handles.
  • Does this pooled record predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled record describes the examiner's historical decisions across all decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome and does not indicate what will occur in any individual case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Asad M Nawaz 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: 155 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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