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Examiner Fatima P Mina

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 424 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAY 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
66%vs 59% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Fatima P Mina has allowed 280 of 424 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed280abandoned144pending30· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (59%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2159 · 66%AU 2157 · 67%AU 2169 · 33%
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What the data says.

Fatima P Mina has a pooled allowance rate of 66% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Her record spans three art units. The allowance rate ranges from 66% to 67% across these art units. This allowance rate represents the percentage of her decided applications—those that were allowed or abandoned—and excludes pending applications. The pooled figure aggregates her work across all three art units and describes her historical record.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's work across multiple art units. The overall allowance rate is the mean percentage of allowed applications among all decided cases, combining different subject areas and application types. This aggregate figure describes past performance and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual art-unit records may vary and are available separately.

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 2159
234 APPS · 66% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

66% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION134 / 70 / 30allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.3 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY43.5 moart unit avg 45.1 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 eligibility64%art unit 55%+9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)37%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 82%+13 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness57%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW73%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW50%+23 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 140 decided applications with an interview and 64 without.

ART UNIT 2157
217 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

67% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION145 / 72 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.3 moart unit avg 28 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY53.4 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 eligibility53%art unit 48%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)55%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 85%+10 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness39%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW78%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW56%+22 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 107 decided applications with an interview and 110 without.

ART UNIT 2169
3 APPS · 33% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

33% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION1 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.3 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY29.9 moart unit avg 40 mo
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Questions about Examiner Fatima P Mina

  • What is Fatima P Mina's allowance rate?
    Her pooled allowance rate is 66% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does she work in?
    She has a record across three art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does her allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 66% to 67% across her art units. Individual art-unit records are available separately.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Fatima P Mina 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: 454 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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