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Examiner Saad K Hassan

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 128 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2012
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
51%vs 74% weighted peer average23 pts

Examiner Saad K Hassan has allowed 65 of 128 decided applications.

65 allowed
63 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2465 · 50%AU 2419 · 53%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Saad K Hassan maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across 2 art units. His pooled allowance rate is 51% across hundreds of decided applications. This rate reflects the share of applications in his record that were allowed, measured against all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The record spans multiple art units within the technology center, and figures presented here represent the aggregate of his examination activity across those units.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates examination data across multiple art units, smoothing variation within the technology center. The allowance rate shown—51%—describes the examiner's historical decided-application set and is a correlation observed in past cases, not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask per-art-unit differences; detailed unit-level statistics appear separately on this page.

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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 2465
113 APPS · 50% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

50%
higher than about 10% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition113 decided applications

57 allowed
56 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 29.9mo
disposed 47.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 38.1 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 21
43%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
29%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
71%

Interview benefit

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

without
28%
+58 pts
with
86%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 44 decided applications with an interview and 69 without.

ART UNIT 2419
15 APPS · 53% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

53%
higher than about 40% of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition15 decided applications

8 allowed
7 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 33.3mo
disposed 40.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Saad K Hassan

  • What is Saad K Hassan's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 51% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400, meaning 51% of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) resulted in allowance.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The pooled record spans 2 art units within the technology center. Individual art-unit statistics are reported separately.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) that were allowed. It describes the historical record and is not a prediction for any pending or future application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Saad K Hassan 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: 128 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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