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Examiner Konrad J Kulikowski

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 89 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
33%vs 55% art-unit average22 pts

Examiner Konrad J Kulikowski has allowed 29 of 89 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed29abandoned60pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Konrad J Kulikowski has a pooled allowance rate of 33% across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). This allowance rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's public record. The examiner's practice spans one art unit. The 33% figure represents the examiner's historical record on decided applications and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art units in TC 2100. A pooled allowance rate describes past outcomes across multiple applications and does not predict the outcome of any individual application. The examiner's record varies by application, prosecution history, and claim scope. Pooled statistics describe collective history, not individual case prospects.

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 2177
89 APPS · 33% ALLOWANCE
33% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION29 / 60 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24.4 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44.2 moart unit avg 40.7 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 eligibility30%art unit 40%10 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)76%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness96%art unit 90%+6 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness58%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW44%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW16%+28 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 52 decided applications with an interview and 37 without.

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Questions about Examiner Konrad J Kulikowski

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 33% across dozens of decided applications in TC 2100. This is the percentage of applications allowed among all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • What does the allowance rate mean for my application?
    The allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific pending application's outcome and does not account for individual claim scope, prior art, or prosecution strategy.
  • How large is this examiner's decided-application dataset?
    The pooled record comprises dozens of decided applications. This magnitude describes the size of the historical dataset but does not predict results on any individual case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Konrad J Kulikowski 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: 89 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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