Technology center

Tech center 2100

81 art units1,853 examiners544,367 applications

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3-year grant rate

75%

allowed within 3 years of the first action

Allowance rate

79%

range 79% to 79%

Rejections before allowance

1.8

Months to first action

20.6 mo

In plain words

With Tech center 2100, 75% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 20.6 months on average.

Examiner difficulty

How examiners in this tech center compare

The spread of examiners on each measure. Click a bar to see who is in it.

Timeline

Applications by filing year: drag across the years to study a period

Allowed in green, abandoned in red, pending in grey. The figures above and every chart that can be recomputed by filing year follow the span you pick; the rest are marked all years.

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Questions practitioners ask, answered from 544,367 applications

Grant rate from the first action

Share allowed, by months after the first office action

The gold line is this record and the blue line is all tech centers. The marker is the three-year grant rate.

Outcome simulator

Where you are, what you do next, and the odds that follow

A model of this record’s own transitions: each examiner action, the response to it, and what came next. Thin data borrows from all tech centers.

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Prosecution paths

How prosecution actually unfolds

Every application’s sequence of examiner actions, from the first action to the outcome. Hover a band for the count.

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Compared with peers

Against the art unit, the tech center and the USPTO

The same figures for this record, all tech centers, the tech center and the whole office.

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Allowance over time

How fast applications are allowed, or abandoned

Share allowed (gold) and abandoned (red) by month since filing, with pending cases counted only while they are pending.

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is all tech centers.

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against all tech centers.

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Interviews

Does an interview help?

Allowance with and without an examiner interview, and how often interviews happen.

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Odds by round

Chance the next action is an allowance

After the first, second and later rejections.

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Response clock

Days from a response to the next action

How long the examiner takes to act once you have answered.

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Quarter-end timing

When allowances land in the fiscal quarter

Allowances by week of the USPTO fiscal quarter. An even spread would put 15% in the last two weeks.

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Appeals

What happens on appeal

Appeals filed, briefs, examiner’s answers, and how the Board decided.

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Trend

Allowance rate by filing year

Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is all tech centers.

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Landscape

Every examiner in tech center 2100

Each dot is an examiner: allowance rate across, rejections before allowance down, size by caseload. Click one to open it.

Hardest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Steve Peter Golden Harder than peers	2144	137	29%
Charles Rones Harder than peers	2136	56	27%
Robert S Brock Harder than peers	2128	229	31%
Pursottam Giri Harder than peers	2186	212	21%
Tracey M McGhee Harder than peers	2154	210	50%
Shelly X Qian Harder than peers	2163	130	37%
Shishir Agrawal Harder than peers	2123	56	8%
John Francis Wojton Harder than peers	2138	54	52%
Matthew Alan Cady Harder than peers	2145	44	0%
Brahim Bourzik Harder than peers	2191	448	65%

Easiest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Riley Sullivan Acosta Easier than peers	2143	30	100%
Cheryl Renea Lewis Easier than peers	2166	1158	96%
John A Lane Easier than peers	2139	1055	96%
Hiep T Nguyen Easier than peers	2137	1077	96%
Kevin Verbrugge Easier than peers	2132	939	93%
Reza U Nabi Easier than peers	2175	755	91%
Thai Q Phan Easier than peers	2128	708	92%
Stephen C Elmore Easier than peers	2188	541	96%
Peter Li Yuan Easier than peers	2197	32	100%
Cao H Nguyen Easier than peers	2171	1156	91%

Art units

Every art unit in the center

Art unit	Examiners	Applications	Allowance rate	Rejections before allowance	Months to first action	RCE rate
2100	21	2,518	62%	1.2	16.4	14%
2111	43	10,424	87%	1.4	16.7	22%
2112	25	12,746	90%	1.2	16.0	17%
2113	32	12,209	89%	1.4	18.8	21%
2114	26	11,451	90%	1.4	18.5	23%
2115	50	10,463	84%	1.5	23.4	21%
2116	53	11,094	83%	1.6	23.1	26%
2117	51	10,600	83%	1.4	19.6	25%
2118	52	5,003	76%	2.0	23.3	38%
2119	20	6,901	86%	1.3	21.1	24%
2121	81	7,795	69%	1.9	26.6	36%
2122	65	5,877	68%	1.9	29.0	38%
2123	67	6,211	70%	1.9	30.3	36%
2124	45	3,709	77%	2.1	30.9	44%
2125	60	4,023	77%	1.9	31.7	39%
2126	58	3,848	69%	2.2	29.6	42%
2127	59	7,005	75%	1.8	27.5	35%
2128	54	6,976	66%	2.1	28.3	41%
2129	71	8,678	82%	1.6	27.2	29%
2131	24	2,340	78%	2.1	17.1	42%
2132	32	6,801	86%	1.7	15.0	37%
2133	26	6,150	92%	1.4	14.9	28%
2134	5	11	91%	1.2	5.9	18%
2135	27	6,816	86%	1.8	15.1	38%
2136	24	5,272	83%	1.9	15.8	40%
2137	33	6,058	88%	1.8	15.6	38%
2138	28	7,259	91%	1.3	14.9	27%
2139	33	6,463	87%	1.6	15.3	34%
2141	46	4,984	64%	2.5	24.9	55%
2142	44	4,488	58%	2.7	25.3	55%
2143	38	5,088	66%	2.7	21.7	58%
2144	52	5,968	75%	2.1	18.8	47%
2145	50	4,306	68%	2.5	20.9	56%
2146	35	2,096	76%	2.0	29.6	44%
2147	33	2,090	59%	2.3	29.8	54%
2148	34	2,741	78%	1.6	29.6	36%
2151	20	1,779	88%	1.5	27.6	34%
2152	21	3,290	73%	2.3	21.2	47%
2153	26	5,882	83%	2.1	20.0	45%
2154	46	7,006	80%	2.2	20.3	45%
2155	34	3,657	81%	1.9	21.1	37%
2156	46	8,577	77%	2.2	20.3	47%
2157	37	3,996	73%	2.5	22.9	48%
2158	29	4,055	62%	2.6	23.8	53%
2159	32	8,909	74%	2.5	21.0	49%
2161	43	9,593	84%	1.8	20.2	35%
2162	34	7,638	81%	2.0	21.5	36%
2163	37	9,494	80%	1.9	20.0	40%
2164	44	7,555	75%	2.1	20.9	44%
2165	44	8,409	76%	2.0	19.6	43%
2166	34	8,227	77%	2.2	19.8	46%
2167	26	6,069	78%	1.8	20.2	37%
2168	34	9,533	79%	2.1	20.6	43%
2169	53	8,063	75%	2.4	19.5	48%
2171	37	8,011	74%	2.1	21.6	45%
2172	42	3,905	64%	2.6	23.7	53%
2173	43	5,210	59%	2.4	22.9	49%
2174	45	7,689	67%	2.2	21.9	49%
2175	60	7,774	74%	1.9	19.9	41%
2176	63	7,412	69%	2.0	18.7	43%
2177	36	4,101	59%	2.3	21.6	50%
2178	50	7,900	70%	2.3	21.0	46%
2179	51	6,705	64%	2.4	22.4	52%
2181	25	9,831	86%	1.5	16.2	28%
2182	60	7,406	83%	1.5	19.4	27%
2183	50	9,257	81%	1.7	20.6	40%
2184	24	11,550	85%	1.7	16.2	28%
2185	46	5,873	81%	1.6	22.5	27%
2186	67	6,500	83%	1.5	20.4	29%
2187	70	6,333	83%	1.6	21.4	29%
2188	44	3,265	81%	1.7	27.1	36%
2189	50	3,988	78%	1.6	28.5	29%
2191	39	10,594	86%	1.5	16.3	31%
2192	36	9,719	86%	1.8	17.6	33%
2193	47	10,007	83%	1.6	20.4	30%
2194	41	9,099	82%	1.7	19.4	36%
2195	39	7,200	82%	2.0	23.6	41%
2196	39	9,411	84%	1.6	20.2	36%
2197	39	5,143	78%	2.0	21.7	42%
2198	48	4,568	86%	1.7	23.7	35%
2199	33	7,722	81%	2.0	21.6	41%