Technology center

Tech center 2400

86 art units1,713 examiners677,333 applications

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3-year grant rate

78%

allowed within 3 years of the first action

Allowance rate

82%

range 82% to 82%

Rejections before allowance

1.8

Months to first action

18.5 mo

In plain words

With Tech center 2400, 78% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 18.5 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 677,333 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 2400

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
Jose L Perez Harder than peers	2474	272	53%
Andrew Chanul Kim Harder than peers	2471	113	56%
Hassan Kizou Harder than peers	2472	52	6%
Andrew Y Koenig Harder than peers	2423	38	0%
Gregory G Todd Harder than peers	2457	444	37%
Krista Michelle Zele Harder than peers	2448	37	0%
Mikhail Itskovich Harder than peers	2483	687	38%
Kevin S Mai Harder than peers	2456	411	35%
Kristin Sensmeier Dobbs Harder than peers	2488	334	64%
Carlton Johnson Harder than peers	2436	317	60%

Easiest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Nam D Pham Easier than peers	2487	1009	93%
Bradley W Holder Easier than peers	2439	908	92%
Jared T Walker Easier than peers	2426	781	88%
Matthew Smithers Easier than peers	2437	1113	93%
Sherrie Y Hsia Easier than peers	2422	1067	95%
Michael Pierorazio Easier than peers	2426	915	90%
Zarni Maung Easier than peers	2451	725	96%
Jude Jean Gilles Easier than peers	2447	1345	96%
Longbit Chai Easier than peers	2431	1315	92%
Clemence S Han Easier than peers	2414	1294	93%

Art units

Every art unit in the center

Art unit	Examiners	Applications	Allowance rate	Rejections before allowance	Months to first action	RCE rate
2400	13	366	50%	1.7	22.4	27%
2403	2	4	100%	1.5	24.3	25%
2407	14	2,147	95%	1.4	18.6	27%
2408	15	1,911	94%	1.5	18.3	31%
2409	13	1,882	91%	1.6	21.3	36%
2411	25	7,936	84%	1.9	19.2	37%
2412	23	9,341	91%	1.5	18.4	25%
2413	31	6,322	82%	2.2	18.8	44%
2414	30	7,458	87%	1.7	17.6	33%
2415	24	6,000	84%	2.0	18.8	41%
2416	100	5,931	83%	1.9	18.7	40%
2417	13	1,072	96%	1.8	24.0	44%
2418	13	1,426	97%	1.9	23.6	41%
2419	98	3,767	85%	1.7	17.6	38%
2421	28	9,146	78%	1.9	13.1	38%
2422	26	11,620	80%	1.5	12.7	27%
2423	32	4,827	70%	2.3	14.5	46%
2424	30	8,951	78%	2.1	13.1	40%
2425	27	10,005	77%	1.9	13.5	39%
2426	30	8,587	75%	2.1	12.7	45%
2427	20	3,000	61%	2.0	20.3	43%
2428	2	359	100%	2.0	22.2	36%
2429	13	1,211	100%	1.9	23.7	44%
2431	54	10,569	86%	1.5	19.5	30%
2432	43	6,628	80%	1.7	20.6	32%
2433	29	9,561	83%	1.7	19.7	33%
2434	37	9,723	86%	1.6	19.1	30%
2435	31	11,683	88%	1.3	18.5	23%
2436	35	9,397	85%	1.7	19.1	34%
2437	46	8,409	82%	1.7	19.9	33%
2438	30	8,875	84%	1.7	18.3	32%
2439	32	8,200	79%	2.2	19.3	47%
2441	35	10,140	84%	1.4	18.5	28%
2442	39	4,860	73%	2.0	19.4	40%
2443	45	9,100	81%	1.7	18.9	37%
2444	40	8,534	81%	1.9	17.7	40%
2445	44	7,870	79%	2.0	18.6	39%
2446	42	6,362	83%	1.6	18.2	33%
2447	40	8,499	75%	1.9	19.1	40%
2448	34	6,189	78%	2.0	20.7	37%
2449	35	6,970	76%	2.2	18.4	46%
2451	36	8,859	82%	1.7	18.4	35%
2452	34	5,415	79%	2.0	20.1	37%
2453	49	7,300	79%	2.1	19.9	41%
2454	58	12,401	83%	1.7	19.5	34%
2455	43	8,297	80%	1.9	19.7	37%
2456	37	5,355	73%	2.2	20.4	44%
2457	41	13,183	84%	1.8	18.8	34%
2458	44	6,653	79%	2.2	19.2	44%
2459	25	5,200	78%	1.9	16.7	40%
2461	30	11,439	78%	2.1	19.4	39%
2462	29	11,572	83%	2.0	18.8	36%
2463	35	11,819	88%	1.6	18.4	29%
2464	28	12,563	88%	1.6	18.8	26%
2465	42	10,118	83%	1.7	19.7	28%
2466	26	11,241	81%	1.9	18.4	36%
2467	27	12,468	87%	1.6	18.7	27%
2468	29	8,110	79%	2.1	18.3	43%
2469	28	11,690	88%	1.6	18.2	29%
2471	28	13,756	90%	1.4	18.5	23%
2472	50	11,650	88%	1.4	18.5	24%
2473	33	11,374	87%	1.7	19.1	31%
2474	28	12,259	86%	1.6	19.5	30%
2475	41	5,960	84%	1.8	22.3	32%
2476	25	11,782	86%	1.7	20.2	28%
2477	24	10,779	83%	1.9	19.9	36%
2478	36	9,549	82%	2.0	20.4	39%
2479	27	3,394	79%	2.2	21.2	43%
2481	25	10,138	79%	1.7	16.4	31%
2482	47	10,210	77%	1.8	16.2	33%
2483	28	8,190	70%	1.8	17.6	37%
2484	17	11,498	78%	1.6	15.3	29%
2485	28	10,573	81%	1.5	15.9	32%
2486	39	11,764	75%	1.8	18.4	33%
2487	21	11,897	81%	1.7	15.8	35%
2488	26	11,189	85%	1.4	18.0	27%
2489	21	1,675	42%	2.2	24.8	43%
2491	35	8,051	77%	2.0	20.2	42%
2492	31	8,090	80%	1.9	19.5	41%
2493	34	8,500	82%	1.8	18.7	37%
2494	32	7,651	83%	1.7	19.6	36%
2495	23	7,774	84%	1.7	18.6	37%
2496	35	4,087	79%	1.8	19.6	41%
2497	29	8,517	89%	1.5	18.4	30%
2498	27	5,608	86%	1.6	17.6	32%
2499	19	2,897	89%	1.4	18.4	30%