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Examiner Herve Iradukunda

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 79 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
61%vs 67% weighted peer average6 pts

Examiner Herve Iradukunda has allowed 48 of 79 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed48abandoned31pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (67%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2185 · 60%AU 2181 · 100%
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What the data says.

Herve Iradukunda maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 61%. This rate represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The record spans multiple art units within TC 2100, and the 61% allowance rate reflects the pooled outcome across that breadth of examination work.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile presents a pooled record—an aggregate of the examiner's work across multiple art units. The allowance rate of 61% describes past decisions on applications that have reached final resolution (allowed or abandoned), and does not constitute a prediction about any specific application. Pooled figures smooth variations that may exist within individual art units. Understanding the scope (multiple units) and the historical rate together provides context for the examiner's decided caseload, but no individual application outcome can be inferred from aggregate statistics.

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 2185
78 APPS · 60% ALLOWANCE
60% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION47 / 31 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22 moart unit avg 21.6 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.2 moart unit avg 36.3 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 eligibility32%art unit 19%+13 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)76%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 77%+16 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness64%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW57%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW63%-6 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 37 decided applications with an interview and 41 without.

ART UNIT 2181
1 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines interconnection and data transfer between memory, I/O, and processing units, and program control and execution.

100% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 74%
DISPOSITION1 / 0 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.5 moart unit avg 18.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCYart unit avg 33.3 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 eligibility0%art unit 18%18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 69%+31 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness100%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 Herve Iradukunda

  • What is Herve Iradukunda's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 61% across dozens of decided applications. This figure is the share of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2100. The figures presented here aggregate the examiner's work across that breadth.
  • Does the 61% rate apply to my specific application?
    No. The 61% is a historical aggregate of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual applications depend on claim scope, prior art, and examination details.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    The examiner's work falls within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), across 2 designated art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Herve Iradukunda 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: 79 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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