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Examiner Tauqir Hussain

TECH CENTER 2400 · 4 ART UNITS · 964 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
86%vs 64% weighted peer average+22 pts

Examiner Tauqir Hussain has allowed 831 of 964 decided applications.

831 allowed
Plus 50 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2446 · 89%AU 2452 · 79%AU 2453 · 100%AU 2449 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Tauqir Hussain maintains a public record spanning 4 art units within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 86%. The allowance rate—the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed—ranges from 79% to 100% across these art units. This range reflects variation in the examiner's record by art unit. The overall 86% figure represents the pooled allowance rate across all four art units combined and does not indicate outcome probabilities for any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates Examiner Hussain's record across multiple art units within TC 2400. The pooled allowance rate of 86% describes past outcomes in decided cases and is a historical statistic only—not a prediction applicable to any specific pending application. Individual art-unit records may differ from the pooled figure. Aggregate statistics describe patterns in closed applications and carry no causal weight regarding future examination outcomes.

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.4 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 2446
537 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

89%
higher than about 84% of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition537 decided applications

478 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.7mo
disposed 28.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26 mo, disposed 41.9 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 32
21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
53%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 76
77%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
28%

Interview benefit

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

without
79%
+17 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 315 decided applications with an interview and 222 without.

ART UNIT 2452
347 APPS · 79% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

79%
higher than about 56% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2452
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2452; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition347 decided applications

273 allowed
74 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.1mo
disposed 48.2mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.2 mo, disposed 42.7 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 44
27%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
53%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
19%

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 199 decided applications with an interview and 148 without.

ART UNIT 2453
111 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 87% 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.

Disposition77 decided applications

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

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.7mo
disposed 58.5mo
0
60mo
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
32%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
51%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
79%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
26%

Interview benefit

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

without
100%
±0 pts
with
100%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 40 decided applications with an interview and 37 without.

ART UNIT 2449
19 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 95% 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.

Disposition3 decided applications

3 allowed
Plus 16 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.6mo
disposed 33.8mo
0
36mo
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
9%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
36%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
18%

Based on 19 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Tauqir Hussain

  • What is Examiner Hussain's overall allowance rate?
    86%, based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    4 art units (2446, 2449, 2452, 2453) within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 79% to 100% across the examiner's art units, reflecting different records in each.
  • Is this allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This is a pooled historical statistic of decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific pending application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Tauqir Hussain 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: 1,014 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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