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Examiner Mustafizur Rahman

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 494 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
85%vs 72% art-unit average+13 pts
higher than about 77% of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422
AU avg 72%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Mustafizur Rahman has allowed 420 of 494 decided applications.

420 allowed
74 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Mustafizur Rahman maintains a public record across one art unit in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate stands at 85%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The pooled record reflects outcomes across the examiner's assignment within the technology center and provides a historical snapshot of disposition patterns.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate describes what occurred in past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation that may exist between individual art units; detailed per-art-unit records appear separately on this page. Aggregate statistics characterize the examiner's historical record only.

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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 2422
494 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 77% of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422
AU avg 72%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition494 decided applications

420 allowed
74 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16mo
disposed 25.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.8 mo, disposed 32.3 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 18
15%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
31%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 76
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
21%

Interview benefit

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

without
85%
+4 pts
with
89%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 36 decided applications with an interview and 458 without.

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Questions about Examiner Mustafizur Rahman

  • What is Mustafizur Rahman's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 85%, representing the share of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) in the pooled record across hundreds of cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Mustafizur Rahman is assigned to one art unit within Technology Center 2400. This page reports pooled data across that assignment.
  • Does this pooled allowance rate apply to my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application. Outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and examination conduct.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications include those allowed and abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mustafizur Rahman 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: 494 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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