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Examiner Ondrej C Vostal

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 666 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JAN 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
76%vs 64% weighted peer average+12 pts

Examiner Ondrej C Vostal has allowed 503 of 666 decided applications.

503 allowed
163 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2453 · 64%AU 2458 · 83%AU 2452 · 90%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ondrej C Vostal has a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the overall allowance rate is 76%. This reflects a pool of both allowed and abandoned applications. The allowance rate ranges from 64% to 90% across these art units, indicating variation in outcomes by subject matter within the technology center. The pooled figure of 76% represents the aggregate record and does not predict the outcome of any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled, cross-art-unit record aggregates decided applications across multiple subject areas within the technology center. The overall allowance rate of 76% describes the examiner's past record on decided cases and is historical fact only, not a forecast. Variation across art units (64% to 90%) reflects differences in subject matter and application complexity. Pooled figures describe what occurred, not what will occur in any future application.

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.3 art units

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 2453
312 APPS · 64% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

64%
higher than about 44% of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition312 decided applications

199 allowed
113 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.6mo
disposed 55.9mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.4 mo, disposed 47.5 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
49%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
51%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
56%
+16 pts
with
72%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 156 decided applications with an interview and 156 without.

ART UNIT 2458
212 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

83%
higher than about 70% of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 45 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 44 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition212 decided applications

176 allowed
36 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.1mo
disposed 37.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.9 mo, disposed 39.5 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 38
46%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
68%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
93%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
51%

Interview benefit

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

without
77%
+17 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 80 decided applications with an interview and 132 without.

ART UNIT 2452
142 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

90%
higher than about 79% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2452
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2452; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition142 decided applications

128 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.5mo
disposed 31.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.2 mo, disposed 42.7 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 44
61%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
56%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
90%

Interview benefit

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

without
85%
+11 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 68 decided applications with an interview and 74 without.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Ondrej C Vostal

  • What is Ondrej C Vostal's overall allowance rate?
    76%, calculated from allowed and abandoned applications (decided cases only) pooled across all art units in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    3 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the art units?
    Allowance rates range from 64% to 90% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation by subject matter.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled figure describes past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ondrej C Vostal 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: 666 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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