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Examiner Ayesha E Huertas Torres

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 216 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
76%vs 58% weighted peer average+18 pts

Examiner Ayesha E Huertas Torres has allowed 164 of 216 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed164abandoned52pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (58%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2172 · 76%AU 2179 · 83%AU 2186 · 0%
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What the data says.

Examiner Ayesha E Huertas Torres maintains a public record across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The pooled allowance rate across all decided applications is 76%. The examiner's record spans 3 art units within TC 2100. Allowance rates across these art units range from 76% to 83%. This range reflects variation in the examiner's decisions across different art-unit subjects within the technology center, though all figures derive from the examiner's complete decided-application record.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates decided applications across multiple art units, producing a single overall allowance rate that represents past outcomes without predicting any specific application's result. The range shown reflects differences among individual art units but does not indicate which art unit will handle any particular case. Allowance rates describe historical dispositions and are not forecasts of future outcomes. Individual application circumstances vary significantly.

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 2172
192 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE
76% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION145 / 47 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION26.2 moart unit avg 24.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY47.6 moart unit avg 44.7 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 eligibility51%art unit 42%+9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)81%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness87%art unit 91%4 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness39%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW87%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW65%+22 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 91 decided applications with an interview and 101 without.

ART UNIT 2179
23 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
83% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION19 / 4 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.9 moart unit avg 26.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.8 moart unit avg 43.3 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 eligibility56%art unit 39%+17 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)61%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness72%art unit 86%14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness17%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 23 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2186
1 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

0% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION0 / 1 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION27.3 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY34.3 moart unit avg 35 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 eligibility0%art unit 32%32 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 83%+17 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness0%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Ayesha E Huertas Torres

  • What is Examiner Ayesha E Huertas Torres's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 76%, calculated across all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's pooled record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner has a public record across 3 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the art units?
    Allowance rates range from 76% to 83% across the examiner's art units. This range reflects variation in outcomes across different subjects within TC 2100.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. Historical allowance rates describe past decisions and are not predictions of any specific application's result. Individual applications depend on claim scope, prior art, and other case-specific factors.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ayesha E Huertas Torres 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: 216 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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