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Examiner Nicholas Joseph Diluzio

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 15 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
40%vs 73% art-unit average33 pts
higher than about 7% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2498
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2498; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 28 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 27 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Nicholas Joseph Diluzio has allowed 6 of 15 decided applications.

6 allowed
9 abandoned
Plus 39 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Nicholas Joseph Diluzio maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning 1 art unit. Across a small number of decided applications, his allowance rate is 40%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed out of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), and does not include pending applications. The allowance rate is a factual summary of past dispositions and is not predictive of any specific application's outcome.

How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates decisions across a single art unit within TC 2400. The pooled allowance rate of 40% describes historical dispositions and reflects the examiner's past record only. Aggregate statistics do not forecast the result of any individual application. Different applications present different facts, claims, and prior art, and individual outcomes vary independently of historical rates.

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 2498
54 APPS · 40% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

40%
higher than about 7% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2498
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2498; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 28 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 27 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition15 decided applications

6 allowed
9 abandoned
Plus 39 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23mo
disposed 36.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 19 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 47
51%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
76%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 90
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
73%
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Questions about Examiner Nicholas Joseph Diluzio

  • What is Nicholas Joseph Diluzio's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 40% across a small number of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record spans 1 art unit (Art Unit 2498) within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical statistic of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's disposition.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications include those that were allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Nicholas Joseph Diluzio 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: 54 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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