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Examiner Mariela Vidal Carpio

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 291 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
77%vs 82% art-unit average5 pts
higher than about 24% of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2476
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2476; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Mariela Vidal Carpio has allowed 224 of 291 decided applications.

224 allowed
67 abandoned
Plus 35 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Mariela Vidal Carpio maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. Over hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate stands at 77%. This rate reflects the percentage of applications in the decided pool—those allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications. The pooled record aggregates outcomes across the art unit(s) within the examiner's jurisdiction and describes the historical record only.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units assigned to an examiner and presents a single allowance-rate figure. That aggregate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction about any specific application's outcome. Individual art units may show variation. Pooled figures are useful context for understanding an examiner's overall historical record, but they do not account for application-specific factors or individual art-unit patterns.

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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 2476
326 APPS · 77% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

77%
higher than about 24% of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2476
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2476; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition291 decided applications

224 allowed
67 abandoned
Plus 35 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.2mo
disposed 40.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.6 mo, disposed 39 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 19
27%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
40%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
93%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
71%

Interview benefit

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

without
77%
+1 pt
with
78%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 129 decided applications with an interview and 162 without.

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Questions about Examiner Mariela Vidal Carpio

  • What is Examiner Vidal Carpio's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 77% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2400. This represents the share of allowed and abandoned applications in the decided pool and does not include pending applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Vidal Carpio's public record spans one art unit. This pooled profile aggregates all decisions within that unit.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes historical outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual applications depend on their own facts, claims, and prosecution history.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mariela Vidal Carpio 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: 326 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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