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Examiner Atique Ahmed

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 500 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
81%vs 75% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Atique Ahmed has allowed 405 of 500 decided applications.

405 allowed
95 abandoned
Plus 49 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2413 · 88%AU 2479 · 56%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Atique Ahmed maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning hundreds of decided applications. The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 81%, meaning that share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) were allowed. Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 56% to 88%. This range reflects variation in the examiner's record within different art units; the pooled 81% figure aggregates all decided applications across both units. The record is historical and does not predict outcomes in any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's performance across multiple art units within TC 2400. The 81% allowance rate and the 56%–88% range both describe past decisions on applications already decided. A pooled figure represents a combined snapshot and does not indicate the examiner's handling of any single pending application. Applicants may find per-art-unit breakdowns in the dedicated section of this profile for more granular subject-matter context.

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 2413
440 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

88%
higher than about 72% of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2413
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2413; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 30 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 29 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition391 decided applications

344 allowed
Plus 49 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18mo
disposed 32.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 20 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 23
20%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
61%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
95%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
39%

Interview benefit

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

without
84%
+8 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 212 decided applications with an interview and 179 without.

ART UNIT 2479
109 APPS · 56% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

56%
higher than about 4% of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2479
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2479; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 27 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 26 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition109 decided applications

61 allowed
48 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.7mo
disposed 42.6mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 36.5 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 26
30%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
41%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
65%

Interview benefit

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

without
34%
+41 pts
with
75%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 59 decided applications with an interview and 50 without.

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Questions about Examiner Atique Ahmed

  • What is Examiner Ahmed's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate across all art units is 81% of decided applications.
  • How many art units does Examiner Ahmed work in?
    The examiner maintains a public record in 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 56% to 88%. Per-art-unit detail is available separately on this profile.
  • How large is the sample underlying this record?
    The pooled allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications across both art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Atique Ahmed 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: 549 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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