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Examiner Khalil Naghdali

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 509 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
89%vs 67% weighted peer average+22 pts

Examiner Khalil Naghdali has allowed 453 of 509 decided applications.

453 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (67%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2437 · 91%AU 2438 · 82%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Khalil Naghdali maintains an allowance rate of 89% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. Allowance rates across these art units range from 82% to 91%. This pooled figure reflects applications that were allowed or abandoned; pending applications are excluded. The allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record in decided cases and does not apply uniformly across all subject matter within the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates allowance data across multiple art units, producing a single figure that reflects past decisions without unit-level detail. This aggregate represents the examiner's overall pattern in decided applications and serves as historical context only. The range of rates across art units indicates variation by subject matter within the technology center. Pooled statistics describe what occurred, not what will occur 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.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 2437
400 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 90% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 44 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 42 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition400 decided applications

364 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.1mo
disposed 32.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.6 mo, disposed 43.8 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 51
51%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
87%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
54%

Interview benefit

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

without
86%
+9 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 220 decided applications with an interview and 180 without.

ART UNIT 2438
109 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

82%
higher than about 64% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition109 decided applications

89 allowed
20 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 14.2mo
disposed 26.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.7 mo, disposed 38.3 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 52
74%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
77%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
92%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
83%

Interview benefit

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

without
39%
+54 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 86 decided applications with an interview and 23 without.

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Questions about Examiner Khalil Naghdali

  • What is Khalil Naghdali's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 89% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units. This reflects applications allowed or abandoned; pending applications are not included.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Khalil Naghdali's record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 82% to 91%, indicating variation by subject matter.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Khalil Naghdali 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: 509 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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