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Examiner Zaida Marrero

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 109 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2016
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
43%vs 59% art-unit average16 pts

Examiner Zaida Marrero has allowed 47 of 109 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed47abandoned62pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Examiner Zaida Marrero maintains a pooled record across one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 43%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed, computed from the pool of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), excluding pending cases. The record spans a single art unit and reflects the examiner's overall disposition history in this technology center.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's performance across all assigned art units. The allowance rate of 43% describes past decisions and reflects the historical share of allowed applications among those decided. Pooled figures do not predict outcomes in any specific case; they are historical summaries. Individual applications may vary based on claim scope, prior art, and examination details. This data is correlational, showing what occurred in the past record rather than what will occur in 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 2176
109 APPS · 43% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.

43% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 59%
DISPOSITION47 / 62 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION31.8 moart unit avg 23.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY55.8 moart unit avg 40.5 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 eligibility61%art unit 40%+21 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)34%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness90%art unit 87%+3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness65%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW69%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW35%+34 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 26 decided applications with an interview and 83 without.

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Questions about Examiner Zaida Marrero

  • What is Examiner Marrero's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 43% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100. This represents the share of applications allowed out of all decided cases (allowed plus abandoned), excluding pending applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    This examiner's record spans one art unit (Art Unit 2176) in Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the pooled record include?
    The pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's assigned art units. It shows the overall allowance rate and breadth of assignment but does not break down performance by individual art unit.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. Historical allowance rates are not predictions of any specific application. Allowance depends on claim language, prior art, and examination during prosecution.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Zaida Marrero 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: 109 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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