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Examiner Miguel Alexander Lopez

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 27 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
7%vs 67% art-unit average60 pts
higher than about 3% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496
AU avg 67%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 35 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 34 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Miguel Alexander Lopez has allowed 2 of 27 decided applications.

25 abandoned
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Miguel Alexander Lopez holds a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning 1 art unit. Across dozens of decided applications, his allowance rate is 7%, meaning that of all applications with a final disposition (allowed or abandoned), 7% were allowed. This rate reflects the pooled record across all art units in which he has decided applications. The allowance rate is a historical figure describing past decisions and is not a prediction of outcomes in any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This examiner's record is pooled across multiple art units within TC 2400, aggregating decisions from different subject areas. The allowance rate presented is a statistical summary of past dispositions and reflects the examiner's aggregate record only. Aggregate figures do not predict the outcome of any individual application, which depends on claim scope, prior art, and other case-specific factors. Pooled data masks variation across art 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.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 2496
68 APPS · 7% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

7%
higher than about 3% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496
AU avg 67%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2496; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 35 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 34 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition27 decided applications

25 abandoned
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.9mo
disposed 37.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.6 mo, disposed 36.2 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
42%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
81%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 91
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
95%
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Questions about Examiner Miguel Alexander Lopez

  • What is the overall allowance rate for this examiner?
    The allowance rate is 7% across dozens of decided applications pooled from all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    This examiner has decided applications in 1 art unit.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical aggregate and does not predict any specific application's disposition. Outcomes depend on claim language, prior art, and case-specific facts.
  • Why is the allowance rate so low?
    The rate reflects past decisions across all art units combined. It is a statistical fact, not a judgment about application quality or examiner conduct.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Miguel Alexander Lopez 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: 68 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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