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Examiner Izunna Okeke

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,075 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
87%vs 79% weighted peer average+8 pts

Examiner Izunna Okeke has allowed 939 of 1,075 decided applications.

939 allowed
Plus 26 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (79%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2497 · 93%AU 2432 · 74%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Izunna Okeke maintains a pooled allowance rate of 87% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. Allowance rates across these art units range from 74% to 93%. This pooled figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's record. The range reflects variation in outcomes across the different art units in which the examiner has worked.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units within TC 2400. The 87% allowance rate describes the examiner's past record—the share of decided applications that were allowed—and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application. Pooled figures mask differences between individual art units; applicants may review per-unit data separately for more granular context about specific technology areas.

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 2497
772 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

93%
higher than about 78% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2497
AU avg 84%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2497; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 28 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 27 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition746 decided applications

697 allowed
Plus 26 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.2mo
disposed 24.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.1 mo, disposed 31.7 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
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
92%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
50%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
44%

Interview benefit

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

without
86%
+13 pts
with
99%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 431 decided applications with an interview and 315 without.

ART UNIT 2432
329 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

74%
higher than about 53% of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 47 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition329 decided applications

242 allowed
87 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 28.4mo
disposed 49.1mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 42.6 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 37
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
86%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
44%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
54%

Interview benefit

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

without
72%
+8 pts
with
80%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 64 decided applications with an interview and 265 without.

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Questions about Examiner Izunna Okeke

  • What is Examiner Okeke's overall allowance rate?
    87% of decided applications across the examiner's pooled record in TC 2400 were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 74% to 93% across the examiner's art units.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate mean?
    The 87% figure is the percentage of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units. It describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction for any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Izunna Okeke 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: 1,101 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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