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Last updated: October 26, 2026

Abdullahi Ahmed, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as AHMED, ABDULLAHI

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2472 2475

This examiner grants 86% of resolved cases

Analysis

AHMED, ABDULLAHI examines applications in Tech Center 2400 and Art Unit 2472. The examiner has 550 resolved cases, an allowance rate of 86.0%, and a median of 963 days to allowance. The interview lift is 2.1%, so interviews show a limited recorded association with allowance outcomes in this profile.

Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, and Apple Inc. are the listed companies. The listed firms are FIG. 1 Patents, FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER, and Han IP PLLC. The data supports planning for an allowance-oriented docket with a median timeline beyond two and a half years, while emphasizing written prosecution work over reliance on interview effects.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

86.0%
Allow Rate
+28.0% vs TC avg
577
Total Applications
+2.1%
Interview Lift
963
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 550 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.4%
§101 Eligibility
23.2%
§102 Novelty
51.1%
§103 Obviousness
8.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18839309 WIRELESS DEVICE, NODE AND METHODS PERFORMED THEREBY, FOR HANDLING A TRANSMISSION Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18946319 Mitigation of Listen Before Talk Conflicts in the Unlicensed Spectrum Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18752297 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAM ALIGNMENT FOR ANALOG BEAMFORMING Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18955628 TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEIVING METHOD Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18860484 COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SENSING Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18944983 ROUTING INGRESS TRAFFIC FOR LOGICALLY ISOLATED NETWORKS DESTINED FOR IP BLOCKS WITHOUT ANY NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18872742 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION CONFIGURATION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18842320 TECHNIQUES FOR SEPARATE CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REPORTING CONFIGURATIONS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18352083 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTENDING A WIRELESS MEDIUM Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18927147 Preemptive Handover Preparation and Tracking/Paging Area Handling and Intelligent Route Selection in a Cellular Network Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18579452 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TRP RELATED BEAM FAILURE DETECTION AND RECOVERY PROCEDURES Non-Final OA Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
18205997 Enhanced Long Range Waveform Structures And Signal Subfield In Wireless Communications Non-Final OA MediaTek Inc.
18599937 DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD Non-Final OA Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.
18486917 BEAMFORMING INDICATION TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA ZTE Corporation
18857787 METHOD FOR HANDLING CONSISTENT LBT FAILURE, TERMINAL, AND NETWORK DEVICE Non-Final OA DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Abdullahi Ahmed's allowance rate?

86.0% of resolved applications examined by Abdullahi Ahmed were allowed (550 resolved cases), compared with 78.1% across Art Unit 2472 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Abdullahi Ahmed?

This examiner's interview lift is +2.1 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Abdullahi Ahmed take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Abdullahi Ahmed took 963 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Abdullahi Ahmed work in?

Abdullahi Ahmed examines applications in Art Unit 2472 in Tech Center 2400 (Networking & Security).

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