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Examiner Omar J Ghowrwal

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 868 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
85%vs 75% weighted peer average+10 pts

Examiner Omar J Ghowrwal has allowed 740 of 868 decided applications.

740 allowed
128 abandoned
Plus 60 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2463 · 86%AU 2416 · 31%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Omar J Ghowrwal maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 85%. This figure represents the share of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications. The pooled record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units within the technology center, providing a summary view of historical disposition patterns without predicting outcomes in any individual case.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's outcomes across multiple art units, creating a single allowance percentage that blends different subject areas and examination approaches. The 85% figure describes what occurred in past decided applications and is historical data only. Pooled rates do not account for variation among individual art units and are not predictions of results in any specific new application. Understanding the data structure helps applicants interpret the public record accurately.

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 2463
912 APPS · 86% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

86%
higher than about 47% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2463
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2463; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition852 decided applications

735 allowed
Plus 60 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.4mo
disposed 31.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.2 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
27%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
77%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
81%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
84%

Interview benefit

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

without
72%
+23 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 523 decided applications with an interview and 329 without.

ART UNIT 2416
16 APPS · 31% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

31%
higher than about 17% 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.

Disposition16 decided applications

5 allowed
11 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 35.8mo
disposed 49mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Omar J Ghowrwal

  • What is Omar J Ghowrwal's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications is 85%, representing the share of applications that were allowed or abandoned relative to all decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400, aggregated into a single pooled profile on this page.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The 85% figure is historical and describes past decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific new application and does not account for differences among individual art units or case-specific facts.
  • What subject matter does this examiner cover?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2400 across 2 art units. Subject-matter detail for each art unit appears separately on this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Omar J Ghowrwal 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: 928 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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