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Examiner Sibte H Bukhari

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 517 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
81%vs 55% art-unit average+26 pts
higher than about 73% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449
AU avg 55%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Sibte H Bukhari has allowed 420 of 517 decided applications.

420 allowed
97 abandoned
Plus 46 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Sibte H Bukhari maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning 1 art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate is 81%. This figure represents the proportion of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), pooled across the examiner's art units. The allowance rate reflects the examiner's historical record and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates outcomes across all of the examiner's art units within TC 2400. The allowance rate and application counts are historical measures—a snapshot of past dispositions. Pooled figures describe the overall record but do not account for variation among individual art units or predict the outcome of any particular application. The data reflects decisions already rendered and closed.

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 2449
563 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 73% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449
AU avg 55%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition517 decided applications

420 allowed
97 abandoned
Plus 46 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.8mo
disposed 37mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.9 mo, disposed 40.3 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 40
32%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
38%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
33%

Interview benefit

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

without
61%
+31 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 337 decided applications with an interview and 180 without.

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Questions about Examiner Sibte H Bukhari

  • What is the overall allowance rate for Examiner Bukhari?
    The allowance rate is 81%, calculated as the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the pooled record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate tell me?
    It describes the historical proportion of allowances in the examiner's closed applications. It is not a prediction of any specific pending application's outcome and does not account for differences between individual art units.
  • How large is the sample of decided applications?
    The pooled record covers hundreds of decided applications.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sibte H Bukhari 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: 563 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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