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Examiner Jorge A Casanova

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 1,153 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
89%vs 63% weighted peer average+26 pts

Examiner Jorge A Casanova has allowed 1,024 of 1,153 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed1,024abandoned129pending26· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (63%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2165 · 94%AU 2159 · 83%AU 2169 · 64%
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What the data says.

Jorge A Casanova maintains an allowance rate of 89% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His public record spans three art units: 2159, 2165, and 2169. The allowance rate varies across these art units, ranging from 64% to 94%. This pooled figure represents the proportion of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that issued as allowed, and does not include pending applications.

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How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates Mr. Casanova's performance across multiple art units within TC 2100. The pooled allowance rate describes his historical record and reflects past outcomes on decided applications. Aggregate figures do not predict the outcome of any specific application. Applicants may review the separate per-art-unit breakdown to see variation in allowance rates by individual art unit, which may reflect differences in subject matter complexity, claim type, or other factors within the technology center.

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 →

// BY ART UNIT

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 2165
664 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

94% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION602 / 36 / 26allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION17.4 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY25.3 moart unit avg 39.6 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 54%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)40%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness68%art unit 82%14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness29%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW98%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW90%+8 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 360 decided applications with an interview and 278 without.

ART UNIT 2159
493 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

83% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION408 / 85 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.7 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.7 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 eligibility51%art unit 55%4 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)52%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness81%art unit 82%1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness30%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW90%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW77%+13 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 206 decided applications with an interview and 287 without.

ART UNIT 2169
22 APPS · 64% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

64% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION14 / 8 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.6 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.6 moart unit avg 40 mo
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Questions about Examiner Jorge A Casanova

  • What is Jorge A Casanova's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 89% across more than a thousand decided applications pooled across all his art units in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The pooled record covers three art units: 2159, 2165, and 2169, all within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. Allowance rates range from 64% to 94% across Mr. Casanova's art units. The pooled rate of 89% masks this variation; per-art-unit detail is available separately.
  • Does this record predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This pooled historical record describes past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jorge A Casanova 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: 1,179 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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