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Examiner Alex Skripnikov

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 809 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JAN 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
86%vs 64% weighted peer average+22 pts

Examiner Alex Skripnikov has allowed 692 of 809 decided applications.

692 allowed
117 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2416 · 87%AU 2473 · 80%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Alex Skripnikov's public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400, across hundreds of decided applications. His pooled allowance rate is 86%, meaning that of all applications with final decisions (allowed or abandoned), 86% were allowed. The allowance rate across his art units ranges from 80% to 87%, reflecting variation in the composition of applications decided in each unit. This pooled figure aggregates his entire decided caseload and describes his historical record only.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines allowance data across multiple art units to provide a single historical figure. The 86% rate represents applications already decided—both allowed and abandoned—and does not predict outcomes for pending applications or any specific case. The range (80% to 87%) shows that individual art units within TC 2400 where this examiner works reflect different allowance patterns. Pooled statistics describe past decisions, not future ones.

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 →

The record, art unit by art unit.2 art units

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 2416
604 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 90% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition604 decided applications

527 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.2mo
disposed 31.2mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 32
19%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
53%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
73%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
58%

Interview benefit

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

without
85%
+8 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 189 decided applications with an interview and 415 without.

ART UNIT 2473
205 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 27% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition205 decided applications

165 allowed
40 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.8mo
disposed 40.7mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 36.4 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 25
27%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
32%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
78%

Interview benefit

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

without
77%
+11 pts
with
88%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 60 decided applications with an interview and 145 without.

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Questions about Examiner Alex Skripnikov

  • What is Alex Skripnikov's overall allowance rate?
    86% of his decided applications were allowed, across hundreds of decided cases pooled from all art units in his record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    Allowance rates range from 80% to 87% across the art units in which he maintains a substantial decided record.
  • Does the 86% rate apply to my application?
    No. This figure describes past decided applications only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alex Skripnikov has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 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: 809 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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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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