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Examiner Sayeda S Nahar

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 36 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
75%vs 72% weighted peer average+3 pts

Examiner Sayeda S Nahar has allowed 27 of 36 decided applications.

27 allowed
9 abandoned
Plus 34 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (72%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2435 · 87%AU 2491 · 67%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Sayeda S Nahar has a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning dozens of decided applications. The examiner's overall allowance rate is 75% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The allowance rate across the examiner's art units ranges from 67% to 87%, reflecting variation in the composition and outcomes of applications reviewed in each unit. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's work across all assigned art units and describes the historical record only.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units, each with its own subject-matter scope and application mix. The overall allowance rate reflects the combined history and is not a prediction of the outcome in any particular application. The range of allowance rates across art units indicates that performance varies by art unit. Pooled figures describe past decisions and do not indicate what will occur in a specific case.

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 2435
49 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 58% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition15 decided applications

13 allowed
Plus 34 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.4mo
disposed 52.7mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.8 mo, disposed 41.4 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 37
44%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
27%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
46%

Based on 49 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2491
21 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

67%
higher than about 32% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2491
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2491; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition21 decided applications

14 allowed
7 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.3mo
disposed 41.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 40 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 41
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
81%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
57%

Based on 21 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Sayeda S Nahar

  • What is Sayeda S Nahar's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 75% of decided applications across all art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 2 art units in TC 2400.
  • Is the allowance rate the same across all art units?
    No. The allowance rate ranges from 67% to 87% across the examiner's art units, indicating variation in outcomes by art unit.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate mean for my application?
    The pooled figure describes the examiner's historical record across dozens of decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome in any specific case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sayeda S Nahar 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: 70 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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