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Examiner Harunur Rashid

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 743 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
80%vs 82% weighted peer average2 pts

Examiner Harunur Rashid has allowed 593 of 743 decided applications.

593 allowed
150 abandoned
Plus 42 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (82%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2497 · 84%AU 2493 · 61%AU 2458 · 43%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Harunur Rashid maintains a pooled allowance rate of 80% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans three art units: 2458, 2493, and 2497. The allowance rate—the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed—reflects the examiner's historical disposition on applications that have reached final resolution. Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 43% to 84%, indicating variation in outcomes depending on the art unit and application specifics. This pooled figure describes past outcomes and is not predictive of any individual application's disposition.

How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates the examiner's performance across multiple art units within Technology Center 2400. A pooled allowance rate represents the historical share of decided applications that were allowed, combining data from different technical areas. The rate describes what occurred in the examiner's past record and does not forecast the outcome of any pending or future application. Individual art-unit records and application-specific factors shape examination outcomes; pooled statistics provide context only.

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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 2497
663 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

84%
higher than about 26% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2497
AU avg 84%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2497; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 28 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 27 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition621 decided applications

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

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.6mo
disposed 36.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.1 mo, disposed 31.7 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 43
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
73%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
32%

Interview benefit

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

without
63%
+30 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 444 decided applications with an interview and 177 without.

ART UNIT 2493
94 APPS · 61% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

61%
higher than about 28% of the 32 examiners with published rates in art unit 2493
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 32 examiners with published rates in art unit 2493; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition94 decided applications

57 allowed
37 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 28.6mo
disposed 51.4mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 23 mo, disposed 36.7 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 43
51%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
31%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 90
90%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
39%

Interview benefit

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

without
54%
+16 pts
with
70%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 40 decided applications with an interview and 54 without.

ART UNIT 2458
28 APPS · 43% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

43%
higher than about 30% 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.

Disposition28 decided applications

12 allowed
16 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 32.2mo
disposed 43.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.9 mo, disposed 39.5 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Harunur Rashid

  • What is Harunur Rashid's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 80%, representing the percentage of decided applications that were allowed across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record spans three art units within Technology Center 2400: 2458, 2493, and 2497.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 43% to 84%, reflecting variation tied to art unit and application characteristics.
  • What does this record cover?
    The record covers hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) pooled across all three art units. Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Harunur Rashid 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: 785 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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