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Examiner Syed M Ahsan

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 300 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 65% weighted peer average+10 pts

Examiner Syed M Ahsan has allowed 225 of 300 decided applications.

225 allowed
75 abandoned
Plus 55 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (65%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2491 · 85%AU 2432 · 40%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Syed M Ahsan holds a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning hundreds of decided applications. The examiner's pooled allowance rate stands at 75%, meaning that of all applications with a final decision (allowed or abandoned), 75% were allowed. The allowance rate across the examiner's art units ranges from 40% to 85%, reflecting variation in outcomes by art unit. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's record without distinction between art units and represents historical data only.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's performance across multiple art units into a single set of statistics. The overall allowance rate reflects cumulative decisions across all assigned art units and describes past outcomes, not predictions for any particular application. The range shown indicates that allowance rates differ among the examiner's art units; individual art-unit records are detailed separately on this page.

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 2491
287 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 76% 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.

Disposition232 decided applications

198 allowed
34 abandoned
Plus 55 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21mo
disposed 41.8mo
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
53%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
89%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
59%

Interview benefit

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

without
77%
+14 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 141 decided applications with an interview and 91 without.

ART UNIT 2432
68 APPS · 40% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

40%
higher than about 15% of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 47 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition68 decided applications

27 allowed
41 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.4mo
disposed 47.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 42.6 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
48%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
96%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
81%

Interview benefit

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

without
19%
+30 pts
with
49%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 47 decided applications with an interview and 21 without.

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Questions about Examiner Syed M Ahsan

  • What is Syed M Ahsan's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 75% across hundreds of decided applications, meaning 75% of applications with a final decision were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner holds a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 40% to 85% across the examiner's art units, indicating variation in outcomes by art-unit assignment. Detailed per-art-unit records are available separately.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Syed M Ahsan 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: 355 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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