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Examiner Obaidul Huq

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 915 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
90%vs 80% weighted peer average+10 pts

Examiner Obaidul Huq has allowed 824 of 915 decided applications.

824 allowed
Plus 40 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (80%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2473 · 91%AU 2416 · 46%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Obaidul Huq holds a pooled record across 2 art units within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner allowed 90% of those applications (allowed and abandoned combined). This allowance rate represents the share of applications that received a final decision, excluding pending matters. The pooled figure aggregates work across both art units and reflects the examiner's historical record on decided applications in this technology center.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's decisions across multiple art units into a single overall figure. The allowance rate shown here represents past outcomes on decided applications and does not predict the outcome of any specific application. Pooled data masks variation between individual art units; for art-unit-specific rates, consult the separate detailed breakdown. Aggregate statistics are correlational, not causal, and reflect historical record only.

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 2473
942 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 77% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition902 decided applications

818 allowed
Plus 40 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.5mo
disposed 31.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 36.4 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 25
29%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
71%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
92%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
33%

Interview benefit

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

without
86%
+13 pts
with
99%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 307 decided applications with an interview and 595 without.

ART UNIT 2416
13 APPS · 46% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

46%
higher than about 31% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition13 decided applications

6 allowed
7 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 30.8mo
disposed 38.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Obaidul Huq

  • What is Examiner Huq's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 90%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Huq works across 2 art units (2416 and 2473) within TC 2400. This pooled record aggregates all applications decided in both units.
  • Does the pooled rate apply to my specific application?
    No. The pooled rate describes past outcomes across both art units combined and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Consult the art-unit-specific breakdown for rates within your particular unit.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those that received a final disposition—either allowed or 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 Obaidul Huq 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: 955 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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