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Examiner Saad Khawar

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 385 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
87%vs 89% art-unit average2 pts
higher than about 33% of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2412
AU avg 89%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2412; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Saad Khawar has allowed 335 of 385 decided applications.

335 allowed
Plus 59 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Saad Khawar maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning 1 art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 87%, meaning that of all applications decided (allowed or abandoned), 87% resulted in allowance. This rate reflects the examiner's historical record and describes past dispositions only. The record encompasses applications across a single art unit within TC 2400.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art units within Technology Center 2400. The allowance rate of 87% describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation across individual art units and technology areas. Historical aggregate rates do not determine the disposition of any particular application.

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 2412
444 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 33% of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2412
AU avg 89%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2412; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition385 decided applications

335 allowed
Plus 59 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.1mo
disposed 30.2mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.8 mo, disposed 31.5 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
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
97%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
86%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
61%

Interview benefit

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

without
84%
+7 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 159 decided applications with an interview and 226 without.

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Questions about Examiner Saad Khawar

  • What is Saad Khawar's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 87% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the share of decided applications (allowed or abandoned) that resulted in allowance.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Saad Khawar's public record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does this record predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This pooled historical record describes past decided applications only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What does 'hundreds of decided applications' mean?
    The examiner has decided hundreds of applications (allowed or abandoned) across the art units in this record. Pending applications are excluded from this count.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Saad Khawar 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: 444 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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