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Examiner Alicia M Antoine

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 132 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
60%vs 66% art-unit average6 pts

Examiner Alicia M Antoine has allowed 79 of 132 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed79abandoned53pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Alicia M Antoine maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, her allowance rate is 60%. This figure represents the share of her decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that resulted in allowance, pooled across all her art units. The allowance rate is computed from decided applications only; pending applications are excluded. This pooled record aggregates her work across her assigned art unit(s) and reflects past dispositions, not predictions about any specific application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines statistics across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate shown here is an aggregate figure describing past outcomes across diverse applications within TC 2100. Aggregate statistics describe historical patterns and are not predictions about the outcome of any individual application. Different art units within the technology center may involve distinct subject matter, so a pooled rate reflects a mix of different examination contexts.

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 2162
132 APPS · 60% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

60% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION79 / 53 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24.5 moart unit avg 23.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY48.2 moart unit avg 41.8 mo
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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 eligibility71%art unit 56%+15 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)98%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness92%art unit 79%+13 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness72%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW72%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW29%+43 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 94 decided applications with an interview and 38 without.

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Questions about Examiner Alicia M Antoine

  • What is Alicia M Antoine's overall allowance rate?
    Her allowance rate is 60%, computed across hundreds of decided applications pooled from all her art units. This is the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does she cover?
    Alicia M Antoine is assigned to one art unit within TC 2100.
  • Does this allowance rate apply to my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes past decisions across many applications and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Allowance depends on the claims, prior art, prosecution history, and examiner assessment of each application individually.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those that have been allowed or abandoned. Pending applications—those still under examination—are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alicia M Antoine 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: 132 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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