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Examiner Ghizlane Maazouz

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 44 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
59%vs 80% art-unit average21 pts
higher than 2 of the 16 examiners with published rates in art unit 2499
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 16 examiners with published rates in art unit 2499; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 17 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 16 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Ghizlane Maazouz has allowed 26 of 44 decided applications.

26 allowed
18 abandoned
Plus 30 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ghizlane Maazouz maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. Over dozens of decided applications, the examiner issued allowances in 59% of cases. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned); it does not include pending applications. The 59% allowance rate is a historical aggregate of the examiner's decisions and reflects past outcomes across the pooled record.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decisions across all art units under this examiner's name. The overall allowance rate of 59% describes past decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Aggregate statistics reflect historical performance only. Individual applications proceed according to their own facts, claims, and examination history, independent of aggregate figures.

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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 2499
74 APPS · 59% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

59%
higher than 2 of the 16 examiners with published rates in art unit 2499
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 16 examiners with published rates in art unit 2499; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 17 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 16 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition44 decided applications

26 allowed
18 abandoned
Plus 30 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.5mo
disposed 40.9mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 32.6 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 27
21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
76%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
91%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
59%
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Questions about Examiner Ghizlane Maazouz

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    59% of decided applications were allowed. This is calculated as a share of all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned), excluding pending cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    This examiner's record covers one art unit in TC 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate mean for my application?
    The allowance rate describes the examiner's past record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application is decided on its own merits.
  • How large is the data sample?
    The allowance rate is based on dozens of decided applications pooled across all art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ghizlane Maazouz 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: 74 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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