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Examiner Mehrdad Dastouri

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 100 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
3%vs 69% weighted peer average66 pts

Examiner Mehrdad Dastouri has allowed 3 of 100 decided applications.

97 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (69%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2486 · 3%AU 2487 · 0%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Mehrdad Dastouri maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. His pooled allowance rate stands at 3% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications in his decided pool (allowed and abandoned combined) that were allowed. The record spans multiple art units within the technology center, and the aggregate allowance rate reflects outcomes across all applications decided in those units during the tracking period.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, yielding an overall allowance rate that describes past outcomes in the aggregate. This rate is a historical summary and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Different art units within TC 2400 may have varying characteristics, and individual application results depend on claim scope, prior art, and examination specifics unique to each case.

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 2486
99 APPS · 3% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

3%
higher than about 3% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 39 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 38 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition99 decided applications

96 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.2mo
disposed 18.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.8 mo, disposed 36.3 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 21
11%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
67%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
78%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
56%
ART UNIT 2487
1 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

0%
higher than 0 of the 19 examiners with published rates in art unit 2487
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 19 examiners with published rates in art unit 2487; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 20 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 19 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition1 decided applications

1 abandoned
No applications pending.
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Questions about Examiner Mehrdad Dastouri

  • What is Mehrdad Dastouri's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 3% across hundreds of decided applications, meaning 3% of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Mehrdad Dastouri's record spans 2 art units (2486 and 2487) within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the pooled record represent?
    The pooled record aggregates all decided applications across both art units. It shows the combined historical allowance rate and does not predict outcomes in any individual application.
  • Does this rate apply to my application?
    No. The pooled rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Your application's result depends on claim scope, prior art, and examination details particular to your case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mehrdad Dastouri 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: 100 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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