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Examiner Raquel Perez-Arroyo

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 308 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
59%vs 47% weighted peer average+12 pts

Examiner Raquel Perez-Arroyo has allowed 183 of 308 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed183abandoned125pending40· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (47%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2169 · 59%AU 2161
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What the data says.

Raquel Perez-Arroyo maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning 2 art units. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 59%, representing the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) cases. This rate reflects the examiner's historical disposition across the pooled record and does not forecast the outcome of any individual application. The allowance rate is a factual summary of past decisions and varies based on application-specific factors, claim scope, prior art, and examination responses.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates decided applications across multiple art units, producing a single allowance percentage. This aggregate figure describes what occurred historically and is not a prediction about any particular application. The allowance rate reflects past dispositions but does not determine future outcomes. Individual applications differ in claim scope, prior art posture, and prosecution history. Pooled statistics provide context about the examiner's historical record; they do not indicate how any specific case will be examined or decided.

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 2169
347 APPS · 59% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

59% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION183 / 125 / 39allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION19.7 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY43.5 moart unit avg 40 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 eligibility56%art unit 57%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)88%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness92%art unit 88%+4 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness61%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW69%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW39%+30 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 212 decided applications with an interview and 96 without.

ART UNIT 2161
1 APPS · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION0 / 0 / 1allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION9.9 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCYart unit avg 39 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 eligibility100%art unit 52%+48 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 88%+12 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 Raquel Perez-Arroyo

  • What is Raquel Perez-Arroyo's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 59% across hundreds of decided applications, pooled across all art units. This percentage represents allowed applications as a share of all decided (allowed and abandoned) cases and is a summary of past decisions.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 2 art units, both within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The allowance rate is a factual summary of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application. Individual outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, examiner rejections, applicant responses, and other case-specific factors.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    This examiner works in TC 2100, which encompasses Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Raquel Perez-Arroyo 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: 348 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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