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Examiner Alexey Shmatov

TECH CENTER 2100 · 5 ART UNITS · 431 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 5 ART UNITS
62%vs 51% weighted peer average+11 pts

Examiner Alexey Shmatov has allowed 268 of 431 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed268abandoned163pending3· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (51%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (5 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2157 · 74%AU 2158 · 58%AU 2123 · 39%AU 2169 · 60%AU 2124 · 100%
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What the data says.

Alexey Shmatov maintains a public record across five art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, his allowance rate is 62%. This rate reflects the share of applications in his pooled record that were allowed, of all applications that were decided (allowed or abandoned). The allowance rate ranges from 39% to 74% across these art units, indicating variation in outcomes across the different subject-matter areas within TC 2100 where he examines.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates applications across multiple art units and represents a historical summary of decisions already made. The overall allowance rate of 62% describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. The range from 39% to 74% reflects the breadth of his work but does not forecast results in any particular art unit or on any pending case. Pooled statistics describe the past record only.

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 →

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The record, art unit by art unit.

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 2157
179 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

74% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION132 / 47 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.7 moart unit avg 28 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY57.1 moart unit avg 46.6 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility57%art unit 48%+9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)75%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness80%art unit 85%5 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness48%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW76%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW72%+4 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 75 decided applications with an interview and 104 without.

ART UNIT 2158
176 APPS · 58% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

58% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 48%
DISPOSITION102 / 74 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.4 moart unit avg 23.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44.2 moart unit avg 49.3 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility58%art unit 52%+6 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)69%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness76%art unit 87%11 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness24%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW78%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW44%+34 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 72 decided applications with an interview and 104 without.

ART UNIT 2123
62 APPS · 39% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

39% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 51%
DISPOSITION23 / 36 / 3allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION32 moart unit avg 29.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY48.1 moart unit avg 43.8 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility68%art unit 61%+7 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)80%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness88%art unit 85%+3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness49%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW61%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW25%+36 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 23 decided applications with an interview and 36 without.

ART UNIT 2169
15 APPS · 60% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

60% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION9 / 6 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.2 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY34.1 moart unit avg 40 mo
ART UNIT 2124
2 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

100% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 64%
DISPOSITION2 / 0 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.6 moart unit avg 41.8 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility50%art unit 61%11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)0%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 88%+12 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness50%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 2 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Alexey Shmatov

  • What is Alexey Shmatov's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 62% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    He has a public record spanning five art units within TC 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    Allowance rates range from 39% to 74% across the art units where he has a substantial record.
  • Does this pooled rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. Pooled historical statistics describe past decisions, not outcomes on any specific pending application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alexey Shmatov has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 14, 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: 434 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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