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Examiner Golam Mahmud

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 280 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
63%vs 59% art-unit average+4 pts
higher than about 48% of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458; 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 44 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Golam Mahmud has allowed 176 of 280 decided applications.

176 allowed
104 abandoned
Plus 46 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Golam Mahmud maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning 1 art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 63%. This figure represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's pooled record. The allowance rate is calculated from applications with final dispositions and excludes pending matters. This pooled record aggregates activity across the examiner's art unit and reflects the examiner's historical allowance outcomes.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units under an examiner's jurisdiction. The allowance rate shown describes the examiner's past record across decided applications and is not predictive of any individual application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation that may exist within specific art units or technology areas. This aggregate snapshot reflects historical allowance patterns but does not account for case-specific factors, amendment strategies, or claim scope.

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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 2458
326 APPS · 63% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

63%
higher than about 48% of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458; 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 44 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition280 decided applications

176 allowed
104 abandoned
Plus 46 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.4mo
disposed 39.9mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.9 mo, disposed 39.5 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 38
34%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
62%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
50%

Interview benefit

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

without
50%
+23 pts
with
73%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 160 decided applications with an interview and 120 without.

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Questions about Examiner Golam Mahmud

  • What is Golam Mahmud's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 63% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This represents the share of allowed applications within the total of decided cases (allowed and abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Golam Mahmud's public record spans 1 art unit. The pooled figures presented here aggregate all activity within that art unit.
  • What does the allowance rate include and exclude?
    The allowance rate is calculated from applications with final dispositions (allowed or abandoned). Pending applications are excluded. The figure is a share of decided applications only, not all filings.
  • Is this allowance rate predictive of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual results depend on claim scope, prior art, and application-specific factors.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Golam Mahmud 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: 326 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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