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Examiner Muhammad A Raza

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 356 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
65%vs 55% art-unit average+10 pts
higher than about 54% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449
AU avg 55%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Muhammad A Raza has allowed 230 of 356 decided applications.

230 allowed
126 abandoned
Plus 37 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Muhammad A Raza maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across 1 art unit. His pooled allowance rate stands at 65% across hundreds of decided applications. The allowance rate represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. This figure reflects the examiner's historical disposition record and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units assigned to an examiner, producing a single overall allowance rate. This aggregate figure describes the examiner's past record and reflects decisions made across different subject areas within the technology center. The pooled allowance rate is historical data only and is not a prediction of the outcome for any individual application or a measure of performance on specific claim types or prosecution strategies.

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The record, art unit by art unit.1 art unit

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 2449
393 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

65%
higher than about 54% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449
AU avg 55%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition356 decided applications

230 allowed
126 abandoned
Plus 37 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.4mo
disposed 40.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.9 mo, disposed 40.3 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 40
68%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
94%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
74%

Interview benefit

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

without
3%
+76 pts
with
79%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 289 decided applications with an interview and 67 without.

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Questions about Examiner Muhammad A Raza

  • What is Muhammad A Raza's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 65%, calculated from allowed and abandoned applications across hundreds of decided cases. This figure excludes pending applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Muhammad A Raza's public record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does a pooled allowance rate mean?
    The pooled allowance rate aggregates the examiner's historical decisions across all assigned art units into a single percentage. It is a backward-looking statistic and not a forecast for any pending application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Muhammad A Raza 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: 393 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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