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Examiner Harvey I Cohen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 100 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2020
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
56%vs 68% art-unit average12 pts
higher than about 18% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439; 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.

Examiner Harvey I Cohen has allowed 56 of 100 decided applications.

56 allowed
44 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Harvey I Cohen maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 56%. This rate represents the percentage of applications in the examiner's pooled record that resulted in allowance, of all applications that were decided (allowed or abandoned, with pending applications excluded from the calculation). The record reflects applications examined within TC 2400 and is presented as a historical aggregate across all art units under the examiner's jurisdiction.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across all art units in which the examiner has worked. The allowance rate shown reflects historical outcomes on decided applications and describes the past record only. Pooled figures do not constitute predictions about any specific application's outcome. Individual art units may show different rates; those unit-specific records appear separately on this page. Review the per-unit data to assess performance in the specific art unit relevant to your application.

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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 2439
100 APPS · 56% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

56%
higher than about 18% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439; 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.

Disposition100 decided applications

56 allowed
44 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.8mo
disposed 36.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.9 mo, disposed 44.5 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
57%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
89%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 94
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
19%
+51 pts
with
70%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 73 decided applications with an interview and 27 without.

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Questions about Examiner Harvey I Cohen

  • What is Harvey I Cohen's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 56% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2400. This is the percentage of applications that were allowed, of all applications decided (allowed or abandoned). Pending applications are excluded.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record spans one art unit. The examiner works within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The allowance rate describes historical outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Your application's prosecution will depend on the claims, prior art, and examiner actions in your matter.
  • Why does this page show a pooled record?
    The pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art unit(s) to show overall historical performance. Separate pages display performance by individual art unit for more granular analysis.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Harvey I Cohen 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: 100 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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