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Examiner Lydia Louis-Fils Noel

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 100 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
69%vs 65% art-unit average+4 pts
higher than about 43% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 44 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 42 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Lydia Louis-Fils Noel has allowed 69 of 100 decided applications.

69 allowed
31 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Lydia Louis-Fils Noel maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400, spanning a single art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 69%. This rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided cases in the pooled record. The figure is computed from applications that have reached final disposition and does not include pending applications. The record aggregates the examiner's work across the art units within this technology center.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates decided applications across all art units assigned to an examiner. The overall allowance rate describes historical dispositions and reflects the proportion of allowed and abandoned cases in that aggregate set. This percentage is a statistical summary of past work and is not a prediction about the outcome of any individual application. Different art units within the technology center may have varying examination patterns; the pooled figure represents the combined record only.

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.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 2437
144 APPS · 69% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

69%
higher than about 43% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2437; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 44 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 42 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition100 decided applications

69 allowed
31 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.1mo
disposed 37mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.6 mo, disposed 43.8 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 51
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
81%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
74%

Interview benefit

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

without
57%
+21 pts
with
78%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 58 decided applications with an interview and 42 without.

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Questions about Examiner Lydia Louis-Fils Noel

  • What is Lydia Louis-Fils Noel's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 69%, based on decided applications pooled across all assigned art units. This is the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record covers one art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    The allowance rate measures the share of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) in the examiner's pooled record. Pending applications are excluded. The rate is a historical summary and not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • How large is the sample underlying this record?
    The pooled record spans hundreds of decided applications across all art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Lydia Louis-Fils Noel 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: 144 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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