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Examiner Saad Ahmad Abdullah

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 85 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
78%vs 73% art-unit average+5 pts
higher than about 37% of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 52 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 46 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Saad Ahmad Abdullah has allowed 66 of 85 decided applications.

66 allowed
19 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Saad Ahmad Abdullah's public record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2400. Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 78%. This figure represents the proportion of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's pooled record. The allowance rate is calculated from applications with final dispositions and does not include pending applications. This record reflects historical outcomes across the examiner's decided caseload and serves as a reference point for understanding the examiner's past decision patterns.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes across all art units under an examiner's jurisdiction. The allowance rate presented here is a historical aggregate—a summary of past decisions on applications that reached final disposition. This figure describes what occurred in the examined caseload and is not a prediction of outcomes on any individual application. Different art units within TC 2400 may have different subject matter, and application outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and applicant responses, among other factors.

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.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 2431
129 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

78%
higher than about 37% of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 52 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 46 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition85 decided applications

66 allowed
19 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.6mo
disposed 37.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 35.1 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
19%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
78%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
33%

Interview benefit

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

without
56%
+36 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 51 decided applications with an interview and 34 without.

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Questions about Examiner Saad Ahmad Abdullah

  • What is Saad Ahmad Abdullah's overall allowance rate?
    78% across dozens of decided applications in the examiner's pooled record. This represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate include and exclude?
    The allowance rate is calculated from decided applications only (those with final dispositions of allowed or abandoned). Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
  • Is the allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This is a historical aggregate of past decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome, which depends on claim scope, prior art, applicant amendments, and other case-specific factors.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Saad Ahmad Abdullah 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: 129 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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