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Examiner Awet A Haile

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 787 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 73% weighted peer average+8 pts

Examiner Awet A Haile has allowed 636 of 787 decided applications.

636 allowed
151 abandoned
Plus 52 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (73%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2474 · 82%AU 2416 · 35%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Awet A Haile maintains a pooled allowance rate of 81% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner works across 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 35% to 82% across these art units, reflecting variation in the decided record by subject area within the technology center. This pooled figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed, computed from the total of allowed and abandoned applications and excluding pending cases.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, providing a broad view of an examiner's overall allowance rate. The aggregate allowance rate describes what has occurred in past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Variation across art units—shown in the range—indicates that allowance rates differ by subject matter within the technology center. Individual art-unit records, where available, offer more granular information for specific technology areas.

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 2474
813 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

82%
higher than about 52% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2474
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2474; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition761 decided applications

627 allowed
134 abandoned
Plus 52 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.2mo
disposed 34mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.7 mo, disposed 38.7 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 25
25%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
72%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
72%
+19 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 406 decided applications with an interview and 355 without.

ART UNIT 2416
26 APPS · 35% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

35%
higher than about 22% 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.

Disposition26 decided applications

9 allowed
17 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.6mo
disposed 52.3mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Awet A Haile

  • What is Examiner Haile's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 81%, calculated from allowed and abandoned applications across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Is the allowance rate the same across all art units?
    No. The allowance rate ranges from 35% to 82% across the examiner's art units, showing variation by subject area.
  • What does this pooled rate mean for my application?
    The pooled rate describes the examiner's past record and is not a prediction of any individual application's outcome. Art-unit-specific rates, where available separately, may be more relevant to particular technology areas.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Awet A Haile 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: 839 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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