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Examiner Anthony L Luo

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 321 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
74%vs 76% art-unit average2 pts
higher than about 28% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Anthony L Luo has allowed 239 of 321 decided applications.

239 allowed
82 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Anthony L Luo maintains a public record across 1 art unit in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, his allowance rate is 74%. This figure represents the share of applications in his pooled record that were allowed, measured against all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The 74% allowance rate reflects the outcomes of applications already closed—whether allowed or abandoned—and does not account for pending cases. This public record provides a historical summary of dispositions within the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates outcomes across all art units where the examiner has decided applications. The allowance rate of 74% describes past outcomes across the full set of decided cases and is historical data only. Aggregate figures do not predict the outcome of any specific application or reflect what will occur in individual prosecution. Each application is examined independently. The pooled data serves as general context about the examiner's historical record in TC 2400.

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.1 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 2465
321 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

74%
higher than about 28% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition321 decided applications

239 allowed
82 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.5mo
disposed 41.7mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 38.1 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 21
27%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
43%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
64%

Interview benefit

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

without
58%
+30 pts
with
88%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 177 decided applications with an interview and 144 without.

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Questions about Examiner Anthony L Luo

  • What is Anthony L Luo's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 74%, measured across all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) in his pooled public record. This is a historical figure and does not predict outcomes in any specific case.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The pooled record spans 1 art unit. This page presents aggregated data across all art units where the examiner has decided applications.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) that were allowed. It reflects past outcomes only and is not a prediction of future prosecution results for any application.
  • How large is the application sample?
    The record covers hundreds of decided applications. Specific counts appear in the page's stat boxes; the narrative refers to applications by category only.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Anthony L Luo 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: 321 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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