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Examiner Jamie Jo Atala

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 172 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
50%vs 71% weighted peer average21 pts

Examiner Jamie Jo Atala has allowed 86 of 172 decided applications.

86 allowed
86 abandoned
Plus 24 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (71%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2484 · 52%AU 2486 · 39%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Jamie Jo Atala maintains a pooled allowance rate of 50% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 39% to 52% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that issued as allowances; it does not represent the share of all applications filed, as pending applications are excluded from this calculation.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled allowance rate aggregates an examiner's record across multiple art units into a single figure. This aggregate describes the examiner's historical record of decisions on applications that have reached final resolution. The pooled rate is not a prediction about any specific application's outcome; it reflects past examination activity across different subject areas and does not account for variation in application complexity, claim scope, or prior-art landscapes within or across units.

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 2484
141 APPS · 52% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

52%
higher than 1 of the 16 examiners with published rates in art unit 2484
AU avg 72%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 16 examiners with published rates in art unit 2484; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition141 decided applications

74 allowed
67 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 32.4mo
disposed 48.5mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.4 mo, disposed 34.5 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 24
12%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
14%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
84%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%
ART UNIT 2486
55 APPS · 39% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

39%
higher than about 5% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 39 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 38 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition31 decided applications

12 allowed
19 abandoned
Plus 24 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.9mo
disposed 32.3mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.8 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 21
18%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
86%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
86%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
34%
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Questions about Examiner Jamie Jo Atala

  • What is Jamie Jo Atala's overall allowance rate?
    50% of decided applications have issued as allowances, pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 39% to 52% across the examiner's art units. This page reports the pooled aggregate; art-unit-specific rates appear in a separate section.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jamie Jo Atala 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: 196 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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