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Examiner Imad Hussain

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 633 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
82%vs 65% weighted peer average+17 pts

Examiner Imad Hussain has allowed 521 of 633 decided applications.

521 allowed
112 abandoned
Plus 25 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (65%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2453 · 89%AU 2451 · 74%AU 2455 · 76%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Imad Hussain maintains a pooled allowance rate of 82% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This record spans three art units (2451, 2453, 2455). The allowance rate ranges from 74% to 89% across these art units, reflecting variation in the examiner's record within the technology center. These figures represent the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's pooled record. The data reflects past prosecution outcomes and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled, cross-art-unit record aggregates data from multiple art units into a single overall allowance-rate figure. This aggregate describes the examiner's historical record across different subject areas within the technology center. The allowance rate reflects what percentage of decided applications resulted in allowance. Because the record spans multiple art units, the overall figure masks variation among individual units. These statistics describe the past and are not predictions of outcomes in any specific application.

These are aggregate statistics from this examiner's past public record — not predictions about any specific application. The per-art-unit figures below show how the record varies across art units. Our approach to patent prosecution →

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 2453
373 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

89%
higher than about 69% of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition348 decided applications

310 allowed
Plus 25 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.7mo
disposed 27.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.4 mo, disposed 47.5 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 43
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
81%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
79%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
27%

Interview benefit

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

without
84%
+12 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 149 decided applications with an interview and 199 without.

ART UNIT 2451
251 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

74%
higher than about 54% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition251 decided applications

185 allowed
66 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 26.8mo
disposed 52.8mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 43.5 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 43
56%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
29%

Interview benefit

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

without
68%
+21 pts
with
89%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 72 decided applications with an interview and 179 without.

ART UNIT 2455
34 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 59% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 42 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 41 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition34 decided applications

26 allowed
8 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 28mo
disposed 52.3mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 41.5 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
56%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
65%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
74%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
62%

Based on 34 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Imad Hussain

  • What is Examiner Hussain's overall allowance rate?
    Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate is 82%. This represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned).
  • How many art units does Examiner Hussain work in?
    The examiner's public record spans three art units within Technology Center 2400: 2451, 2453, and 2455.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 74% to 89% across the examiner's art units, indicating variation in the record within the technology center.
  • Does this allowance rate predict outcomes in my application?
    No. These figures describe the examiner's historical record and are not a prediction of the outcome of any specific pending application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Imad Hussain 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: 658 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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