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Examiner Boubacar Abdou Tchoussou

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
71%vs 61% weighted peer average+10 pts

Examiner Boubacar Abdou Tchoussou has allowed 354 of 500 decided applications.

354 allowed
146 abandoned
Plus 42 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (61%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2482 · 81%AU 2489 · 24%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Boubacar Abdou Tchoussou maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 71%. This aggregate figure represents applications allowed as a share of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned); pending applications are excluded. The allowance rate ranges from 24% to 81% across these art units, reflecting variation in the examiner's record by individual art-unit assignment. This pooled record describes past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units within TC 2400. The pooled allowance rate—here 71%—is a historical average across all decided applications in those units combined. Such aggregated figures describe the examiner's overall past record and do not forecast the result of any particular application. Variation across individual art units may occur; per-art-unit detail appears separately on this page.

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 2482
453 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 71% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 45 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition411 decided applications

333 allowed
78 abandoned
Plus 42 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.8mo
disposed 29.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 38.4 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 13
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
69%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
90%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
55%

Interview benefit

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

without
78%
+6 pts
with
84%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 194 decided applications with an interview and 217 without.

ART UNIT 2489
89 APPS · 24% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

24%
higher than about 24% of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2489
AU avg 36%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2489; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition89 decided applications

21 allowed
68 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.9mo
disposed 40.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.4 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 26
47%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
92%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
95%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
85%

Interview benefit

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

without
4%
+50 pts
with
54%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 35 decided applications with an interview and 54 without.

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Questions about Examiner Boubacar Abdou Tchoussou

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    71% of decided applications across all art units were allowed. This represents allowed applications as a share of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned); pending applications are not included in this calculation.
  • How many art units does this examiner work across?
    The examiner has a substantial record in 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 24% to 81% across the examiner's art units. Individual art-unit allowance rates are detailed separately on this page.
  • Is this pooled allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This aggregate figure describes the examiner's historical record across decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Boubacar Abdou Tchoussou 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: 542 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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