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Examiner Mariela D Reyes

TECH CENTER 2100 · 4 ART UNITS · 371 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
60%vs 63% weighted peer average3 pts

Examiner Mariela D Reyes has allowed 223 of 371 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed223abandoned148pending19· 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 (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2167 · 65%AU 2159 · 33%AU 2142 · 96%AU 2169 · 0%
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What the data says.

Mariela D Reyes maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning 4 art units. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 60%. This figure represents the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) cases in the pooled record. The allowance rate varies across the examiner's art units, ranging from 33% to 96%. The pooled 60% rate aggregates these different units and describes the historical record without predicting outcomes in any individual application.

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How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates Mariela D Reyes's work across multiple art units within TC 2100. The pooled allowance rate of 60% is a historical summary, not a prediction for any specific application. When an examiner works in several art units, aggregate figures mask variation among those units; the range (33% to 96%) shows that outcomes differ meaningfully by art unit. These statistics describe the past record and are not causally predictive of any future application.

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 2167
260 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

65% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION170 / 90 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.6 moart unit avg 24.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY54.9 moart unit avg 41.2 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 eligibility51%art unit 43%+8 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)52%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness78%art unit 75%+3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness16%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW79%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW59%+20 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 84 decided applications with an interview and 176 without.

ART UNIT 2159
83 APPS · 33% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

33% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION27 / 56 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.2 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY49.6 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 eligibility54%art unit 55%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)84%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness89%art unit 82%+7 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness37%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW54%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW17%+37 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 35 decided applications with an interview and 48 without.

ART UNIT 2142
46 APPS · 96% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

96% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 45%
DISPOSITION26 / 1 / 19allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION31.2 moart unit avg 30.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.6 moart unit avg 48.3 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 eligibility80%art unit 56%+24 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)60%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 91%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness42%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 46 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2169
1 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

0% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION0 / 1 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.7 moart unit avg 40 mo
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Questions about Examiner Mariela D Reyes

  • What is Mariela D Reyes's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 60% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100, representing the share of allowed cases among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Mariela D Reyes has a public record in 4 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 33% to 96% across the examiner's art units, indicating material variation in the historical record by unit.
  • Is the 60% rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes the historical record and is not a prediction of outcome in any individual case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mariela D Reyes 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: 390 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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