Examiner Lalita W Pace has allowed 213 of 253 decided applications.
Examiner Lalita W Pace maintains a public record across 2 art units within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's overall allowance rate is 84%. This rate represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The allowance rate across the examiner's art units ranges from 77% to 85%, reflecting variation in outcomes within the technology center.
A pooled record aggregates data from multiple art units to provide an overall picture of an examiner's allowance history. The figures presented here reflect past decisions across all art units combined and describe the historical record only. They are not predictions of outcomes in any specific application. The range across art units illustrates how outcomes may vary by subject matter within TC 2400, though the aggregate rate captures the examiner's overall pattern.
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 →
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.
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.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 137 decided applications with an interview and 90 without.
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.
Based on 26 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Lalita W Pace 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: 253 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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