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Examiner Alexander Q Huerta

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 613 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
73%vs 61% weighted peer average+12 pts

Examiner Alexander Q Huerta has allowed 446 of 613 decided applications.

446 allowed
167 abandoned
Plus 30 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (61%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2425 · 88%AU 2427 · 34%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Alexander Q Huerta maintains a pooled allowance rate of 73% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate—the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined, excluding pending matters) that resulted in allowance—varies across these art units, ranging from 34% to 88%. This range reflects the different subject matter and prosecution patterns within the examiner's portfolio. The pooled figure of 73% represents the aggregate outcome across all decided applications in his assigned art units.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's decided applications across multiple art units within TC 2400. The overall allowance rate of 73% describes historical outcomes across that combined set and is not a prediction of any specific application's fate. The range of 34% to 88% across art units illustrates variation in outcomes by subject matter and art-unit assignment. Pooled figures provide context on the examiner's overall record; individual art-unit rates are published separately and may differ materially from the aggregate.

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 2425
471 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

88%
higher than about 89% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition441 decided applications

388 allowed
Plus 30 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 11.7mo
disposed 23.9mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 18.9 mo, disposed 36.3 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 24
19%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
81%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
89%
3 pts
with
86%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 130 decided applications with an interview and 311 without.

ART UNIT 2427
172 APPS · 34% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

34%
higher than 7 of the 17 examiners with published rates in art unit 2427
AU avg 41%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 17 examiners with published rates in art unit 2427; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition172 decided applications

58 allowed
114 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 29mo
disposed 59.5mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.6 mo, disposed 51 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 27
34%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
56%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
55%

Interview benefit

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

without
22%
+33 pts
with
55%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 60 decided applications with an interview and 112 without.

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Questions about Examiner Alexander Q Huerta

  • What is Alexander Q Huerta's overall allowance rate?
    73%, based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across all his assigned art units in TC 2400. This figure represents allowed applications as a share of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), excluding pending matters.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • How much does the allowance rate vary across his art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 34% to 88% across these art units, reflecting differences in subject matter and prosecution patterns by art-unit assignment.
  • Does this pooled rate apply to my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes past outcomes across multiple art units combined and is not a prediction of any individual application. Rates vary by art unit; the specific art unit assigned to an application may have a materially different historical allowance rate.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alexander Q Huerta 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: 643 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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