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Examiner Tariq S Najee-Ullah

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 218 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2017
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
42%vs 64% weighted peer average22 pts

Examiner Tariq S Najee-Ullah has allowed 92 of 218 decided applications.

92 allowed
126 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2453 · 38%AU 2448 · 67%AU 2456 · 30%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Tariq S Najee-Ullah maintains a pooled allowance rate of 42% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans three art units: 2448, 2453, and 2456. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications in the decided pool that issued as allowed rather than abandoned—ranges from 38% to 67% across these art units. This range reflects variation in the examiner's record across different subject-matter areas within the technology center. The pooled figure of 42% represents the overall share of allowed applications in the decided record.

How to read these numbers.

This examiner's pooled record aggregates applications across multiple art units within Technology Center 2400. The 42% allowance rate and the 38–67% range describe historical outcomes in decided applications, not predictions about any specific application. Applicants review pooled data to understand an examiner's past record across their practice areas. The range signals that outcomes may differ depending on the art unit; art-unit-specific rates appear elsewhere on this page and are more precise for applications in a given art unit.

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The record, art unit by art unit.3 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 2453
175 APPS · 38% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

38%
higher than about 15% of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition175 decided applications

67 allowed
108 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 34.2mo
disposed 68.3mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.4 mo, disposed 47.5 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 43
49%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
40%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
38%

Interview benefit

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

without
28%
+20 pts
with
48%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 92 decided applications with an interview and 83 without.

ART UNIT 2448
33 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

67%
higher than about 59% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2448
AU avg 56%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2448; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition33 decided applications

22 allowed
11 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27mo
disposed 73.7mo
0
84mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.7 mo, disposed 46.1 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 33
42%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
52%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
58%

Based on 33 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2456
10 APPS · 30% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

30%
higher than about 24% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2456
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2456; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition10 decided applications

3 allowed
7 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 44.3mo
disposed 51.7mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 42.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Tariq S Najee-Ullah

  • What is Tariq S Najee-Ullah's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 42% across hundreds of decided applications across Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    He maintains a record across three art units: 2448, 2453, and 2456.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 38% to 67% across these art units, reflecting variation in his record by subject matter.
  • Is the pooled rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes past outcomes in decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Tariq S Najee-Ullah 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: 218 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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