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Examiner Luis A Sitiriche

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 513 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
79%vs 59% weighted peer average+20 pts

Examiner Luis A Sitiriche has allowed 407 of 513 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed407abandoned106pending30· 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 2122 · 81%AU 2126 · 77%AU 2129 · 78%
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What the data says.

Luis A Sitiriche maintains an allowance rate of 79% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His public record spans 3 art units. The allowance rate reflects the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in his pooled record and ranges from 77% to 81% across these art units. This range describes the variation in allowance rates among the individual art units within his record.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decisions across multiple art units within TC 2100. The overall allowance rate of 79% describes the historical share of allowed and abandoned applications in the examiner's combined record. Aggregate figures are not predictions of outcomes in any specific application. Art units may have different prosecution patterns, and individual application outcomes depend on the particular claims, prior art, and examination history involved.

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 2122
279 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION227 / 52 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.3 moart unit avg 27.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY37.9 moart unit avg 39.3 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 eligibility62%art unit 55%+7 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)68%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness85%art unit 83%+2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness40%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW68%+26 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 144 decided applications with an interview and 135 without.

ART UNIT 2126
255 APPS · 77% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

77% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION173 / 52 / 30allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION33 moart unit avg 29.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY54.2 moart unit avg 44.4 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 eligibility77%art unit 53%+24 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)80%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness86%art unit 88%2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness66%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW81%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW71%+10 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 128 decided applications with an interview and 97 without.

ART UNIT 2129
9 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

78% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 65%
DISPOSITION7 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION33.5 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.5 moart unit avg 42.3 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 eligibility60%art unit 62%2 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)80%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness40%art unit 76%36 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness0%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 9 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Luis A Sitiriche

  • What is Luis A Sitiriche's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 79%, calculated as the share of allowed and abandoned applications among all decided applications, pooled across his art units.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The record spans 3 art units: 2122, 2126, and 2129, all within TC 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 77% to 81% across the examiner's art units. This range reflects variation in the historical record but is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • How large is the sample of decided applications?
    The record covers hundreds of decided applications, pooled across all three art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Luis A Sitiriche 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: 543 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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