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Examiner Ayman A Abaza

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 337 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
55%vs 67% weighted peer average12 pts

Examiner Ayman A Abaza has allowed 186 of 337 decided applications.

186 allowed
151 abandoned
Plus 16 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (67%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2486 · 44%AU 2419 · 61%AU 2465 · 92%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Ayman A Abaza maintains a pooled allowance rate of 55% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans three art units: 2419, 2465, and 2486. Across these art units, allowance rates range from 44% to 92%, reflecting variation in the composition and outcomes of applications reviewed across different subject-matter areas within the technology center. This pooled figure represents all decided applications—those allowed and those abandoned—and does not include pending applications.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units within Technology Center 2400. The pooled allowance rate of 55% describes historical outcomes across hundreds of decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. The range of allowance rates (44% to 92%) reflects different art units; per-unit detail is available separately. Aggregated figures describe past record only.

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 2486
182 APPS · 44% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

44%
higher than about 8% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 39 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 38 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition182 decided applications

80 allowed
102 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.4mo
disposed 36.8mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.8 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
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
88%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
87%

Interview benefit

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

without
26%
+36 pts
with
62%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 91 decided applications with an interview and 91 without.

ART UNIT 2419
117 APPS · 61% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

61%
higher than about 47% of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition117 decided applications

71 allowed
46 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.4mo
disposed 32.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 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 24
20%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
70%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
70%

Interview benefit

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

without
33%
+42 pts
with
75%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 77 decided applications with an interview and 40 without.

ART UNIT 2465
54 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

92%
higher than about 69% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition38 decided applications

35 allowed
Plus 16 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.7mo
disposed 31.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 38.1 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
18%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
76%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
91%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
76%

Interview benefit

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

without
86%
+14 pts
with
100%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 17 decided applications with an interview and 21 without.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Ayman A Abaza

  • What is Examiner Abaza's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 55% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This figure represents applications allowed and abandoned; pending applications are excluded.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Abaza has a record across three art units within Technology Center 2400: 2419, 2465, and 2486. The pooled record shown here aggregates all three.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 44% to 92%. Individual art-unit detail is available in a separate section.
  • Does this rate apply to my specific application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes historical outcomes and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Outcomes vary by application, art unit, and other factors.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ayman A Abaza 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: 353 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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