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Examiner Dinku W Gebresenbet

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 652 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
71%vs 62% art-unit average+9 pts

Examiner Dinku W Gebresenbet has allowed 465 of 652 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed465abandoned187pending23· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Dinku W Gebresenbet maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), covering one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 71%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed out of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned). The pooled record aggregates all work in the examiner's assigned art unit and reflects historical outcomes on applications that have reached final disposition.

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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 2164
675 APPS · 71% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

71% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION465 / 187 / 23allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.9 moart unit avg 22.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42 moart unit avg 43.4 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 eligibility51%art unit 58%7 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)50%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness91%art unit 88%+3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness33%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW86%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW52%+34 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 375 decided applications with an interview and 277 without.

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Questions about Examiner Dinku W Gebresenbet

  • What is Dinku W Gebresenbet's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 71%, calculated as a percentage of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) pooled across the examiner's art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's record spans one art unit (Art Unit 2164) within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the pooled record cover?
    The pooled record aggregates all decided applications across all the examiner's assigned art units. It describes historical outcomes, not predictions for any specific application.
  • What is Technology Center 2100?
    Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) is the examiner's assigned technology center.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Dinku W Gebresenbet 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: 675 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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