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Examiner Hassan Saadoun

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 411 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
94%vs 75% weighted peer average+19 pts

Examiner Hassan Saadoun has allowed 385 of 411 decided applications.

385 allowed
Plus 23 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2435 · 94%AU 2431 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Hassan Saadoun maintains a pooled allowance rate of 94% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His public record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate reflects the share of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications. This figure represents his historical record across the designated technology center and art-unit assignments.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units within TC 2400. Aggregate figures describe past outcomes and are not predictions about any specific application. Individual art units may show different patterns; per-unit detail appears in separate sections. Historical allowance rates are correlational data and do not determine outcomes in any particular prosecution.

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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 2435
432 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

94%
higher than about 81% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition409 decided applications

383 allowed
Plus 23 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.6mo
disposed 25.6mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.8 mo, disposed 41.4 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 37
28%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
71%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
67%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
45%

Interview benefit

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

without
94%
1 pt
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 134 decided applications with an interview and 275 without.

ART UNIT 2431
2 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 72% of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 52 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 46 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition2 decided applications

2 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 1.9mo
disposed 8.1mo
0
12mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 35.1 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Hassan Saadoun

  • What is Hassan Saadoun's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 94%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned applications, excluding pending ones) in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The pooled record spans 2 art units within TC 2400. Separate data for individual art units is available in the per-unit section of this page.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This is a historical aggregate across past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Many factors unique to each prosecution affect individual results.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hassan Saadoun 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: 434 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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