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Examiner Syed M Bokhari

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 879 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 80% weighted peer average+4 pts

Examiner Syed M Bokhari has allowed 734 of 879 decided applications.

734 allowed
145 abandoned
Plus 39 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (80%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2473 · 85%AU 2416 · 45%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Syed M Bokhari maintains a pooled allowance rate of 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans two art units: 2416 and 2473. The allowance rate ranges from 45% to 85% across these art units, reflecting variation in the decided application outcomes within TC 2400. The 84% figure represents the aggregate share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications pooled across both art units. This public record encompasses only decided applications; pending applications are excluded from the calculation.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decided applications across two art units in TC 2400 into a single allowance-rate figure. The aggregate allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction for any specific application. The range of allowance rates across individual art units reflects variation in outcomes within those distinct art-unit jurisdictions. Understanding that this is a pooled, cross-art-unit summary helps frame the 84% figure in context: it is a backward-looking measure of past decisions, not a forecast.

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 2473
889 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 60% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition850 decided applications

721 allowed
129 abandoned
Plus 39 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.1mo
disposed 36.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 36.4 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 25
28%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
69%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
92%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
20%

Interview benefit

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

without
77%
+16 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 429 decided applications with an interview and 421 without.

ART UNIT 2416
29 APPS · 45% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

45%
higher than about 28% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition29 decided applications

13 allowed
16 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 34.4mo
disposed 54.6mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Syed M Bokhari

  • What is Syed M Bokhari's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 84%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned, excluding pending) pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans two art units (2416 and 2473) within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 45% to 85% across these art units, reflecting variation in the decided-application outcomes within each jurisdiction.
  • Does this allowance rate apply to my application?
    This pooled record is a historical summary and is not a prediction for any specific application. Individual outcomes depend on application-specific facts and examination.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Syed M Bokhari 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: 918 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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