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Examiner Boris D Grijalva Lobos

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 448 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 63% weighted peer average+21 pts

Examiner Boris D Grijalva Lobos has allowed 378 of 448 decided applications.

378 allowed
70 abandoned
Plus 37 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (63%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2446 · 82%AU 2496 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Boris D Grijalva Lobos maintains a pooled allowance rate of 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 82% to 100% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that resulted in allowance, aggregating across all art units in which he maintains a substantial record. The pooled rate describes his past record and is not a prediction of any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, producing a single allowance percentage. This aggregate figure describes historical outcomes and does not predict the result of any individual application. The range shown reflects variation among the examiner's art units; a specific application's outcome depends on its own merits, classification, and examination.

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 2446
397 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

82%
higher than about 67% of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition397 decided applications

327 allowed
70 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.9mo
disposed 29.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26 mo, disposed 41.9 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
42%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
77%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 76
77%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
72%

Interview benefit

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

without
75%
+18 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 162 decided applications with an interview and 235 without.

ART UNIT 2496
88 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 91% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496
AU avg 67%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 35 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 34 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition51 decided applications

51 allowed
Plus 37 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18mo
disposed 24.6mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.6 mo, disposed 36.2 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 43
39%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
87%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 91
84%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
69%

Interview benefit

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

without
100%
±0 pts
with
100%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 32 decided applications with an interview and 19 without.

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Questions about Examiner Boris D Grijalva Lobos

  • What is Boris D Grijalva Lobos's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The record spans 2 art units.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 82% to 100% across these art units.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This pooled figure describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application. Outcomes depend on the application's merits and examination.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Boris D Grijalva Lobos 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: 485 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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