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Examiner Fahmida S Chowdhury

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 700 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
94%vs 87% art-unit average+7 pts
higher than about 81% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Fahmida S Chowdhury has allowed 655 of 700 decided applications.

655 allowed
Plus 43 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Fahmida S Chowdhury's public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 94%, meaning that of all applications that received a final disposition (allowed or abandoned), 94% were allowed. This rate reflects the examiner's historical record on decided cases and does not account for pending applications. The pooled figure aggregates all decided outcomes within the covered art unit during the period reflected in the public record.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all art units under the examiner's jurisdiction. The allowance rate of 94% describes past outcomes across hundreds of decided applications and reflects historical performance only. Aggregate statistics do not predict outcomes on any individual application. Each application presents distinct claim scope, prior art, and arguments. These figures serve as a reference point for understanding the examiner's historical decided-application record and are not forecasts of future prosecution results.

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The record, art unit by art unit.1 art unit

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 2471
743 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

94%
higher than about 81% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition700 decided applications

655 allowed
Plus 43 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.7mo
disposed 27.2mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 32.5 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 22
10%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
61%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 71
69%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
27%

Interview benefit

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

without
92%
+5 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 194 decided applications with an interview and 506 without.

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Questions about Examiner Fahmida S Chowdhury

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 94%, meaning 94% of the examiner's decided applications (allowed or abandoned) resulted in allowance across hundreds of applications in the public record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans one art unit within TC 2400.
  • What does the pooled record include?
    The pooled record aggregates all decided applications across all art units under the examiner's jurisdiction. It reflects historical outcomes and does not predict results for any specific pending application.
  • How many applications are included in this record?
    The public record covers hundreds of decided applications. Specific allowed, abandoned, or pending counts appear in the statistics boxes on this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Fahmida S Chowdhury 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: 743 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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