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Examiner Claudia B Dragoescu

TECH CENTER 2100 · 4 ART UNITS · 465 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION SEP 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
75%vs 58% weighted peer average+17 pts

Examiner Claudia B Dragoescu has allowed 347 of 465 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed347abandoned118pending0· 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 (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2141 · 67%AU 2175 · 89%AU 2142 · 100%AU 2171 · 0%
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What the data says.

Claudia B Dragoescu maintains a pooled allowance rate of 75% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Her record spans four art units: 2141, 2142, 2171, and 2175. The allowance rate—the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined, excluding pending matters)—reflects outcomes across this broad subject-matter jurisdiction. Allowance rates vary across her art units, ranging from 67% to 100%. This variation reflects the different examination profiles within TC 2100 but does not indicate performance on any specific application.

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How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates Claudia B Dragoescu's examination outcomes across multiple art units within TC 2100. A pooled rate describes her historical record in aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Variation across art units is common and reflects differences in subject matter, application complexity, and prior art within each art unit. The figures presented here are correlational—they show what occurred in the past—not causal claims about examination methodology or future results.

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 2141
301 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

67% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION203 / 98 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.9 moart unit avg 28.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.8 moart unit avg 47.1 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 eligibility39%art unit 50%11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)52%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness98%art unit 91%+7 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness36%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW88%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW49%+39 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 142 decided applications with an interview and 159 without.

ART UNIT 2175
139 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.

89% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION124 / 15 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION10.8 moart unit avg 22.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY23.1 moart unit avg 37.8 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 eligibility44%art unit 29%+15 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)44%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 87%+10 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness36%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW99%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW74%+25 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 86 decided applications with an interview and 53 without.

ART UNIT 2142
20 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

100% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 45%
DISPOSITION20 / 0 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.3 moart unit avg 30.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY27.6 moart unit avg 48.3 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 eligibility65%art unit 56%+9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)30%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 91%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness45%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 20 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2171
5 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
0% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 56%
DISPOSITION0 / 5 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION34.2 moart unit avg 22 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.8 moart unit avg 37.2 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 eligibility100%art unit 38%+62 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness75%art unit 89%14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness25%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 5 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Claudia B Dragoescu

  • What is Claudia B Dragoescu's overall allowance rate?
    Her pooled allowance rate is 75% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does she examine in?
    She examines across four art units (2141, 2142, 2171, 2175) within Technology Center 2100.
  • Do her allowance rates differ across art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates across her art units range from 67% to 100%, reflecting variation in different subject areas within TC 2100.
  • What does this record tell me about my specific application?
    These figures describe her historical pooled record and are not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Every application is examined on its merits.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Claudia B Dragoescu 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: 465 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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