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Examiner Onyedika C Okeke

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 134 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2017
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
43%vs 68% art-unit average25 pts
higher than about 11% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Onyedika C Okeke has allowed 58 of 134 decided applications.

58 allowed
76 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Onyedika C Okeke maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 43%, meaning that 43% of applications decided by this examiner (allowed or abandoned) received allowance. This figure describes the examiner's past record and does not predict the outcome of any specific application. The pooled record aggregates all work in the art unit assigned to this examiner within the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled examiner record combines results from all assigned art units into a single aggregate profile. The allowance rate shown reflects historical decisions across all art units worked and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application. Aggregate statistics describe what occurred in the past; they characterize neither the merits of any pending application nor the disposition of future filings. Individual applications are examined on their own legal and technical facts.

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 2425
134 APPS · 43% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

43%
higher than about 11% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2425; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition134 decided applications

58 allowed
76 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 30.2mo
disposed 58.3mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 18.9 mo, disposed 36.3 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 24
25%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
92%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
32%
+41 pts
with
73%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 37 decided applications with an interview and 97 without.

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Questions about Examiner Onyedika C Okeke

  • What is Onyedika C Okeke's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 43% of decided applications across the examined record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    This examiner's record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate represent?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of applications decided (allowed or abandoned) that received allowance. It describes past outcomes and is not a prediction for any pending or future application.
  • Why is this record pooled?
    The pooled record combines all work across the examiner's assigned art units into one aggregate profile, providing a broad view of historical performance across TC 2400.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Onyedika C Okeke 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: 134 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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