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Examiner Oschta I Montoya

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 748 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
78%vs 61% art-unit average+17 pts
higher than about 64% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2421
AU avg 61%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2421; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 29 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 28 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Oschta I Montoya has allowed 587 of 748 decided applications.

587 allowed
161 abandoned
Plus 43 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Oschta I Montoya maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. The examiner's pooled allowance rate stands at 78% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications—those that were either allowed or abandoned. The record reflects examination activity in a single art unit and provides a baseline profile of historical dispositions without bearing on any particular application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates examination outcomes across the examiner's art units. The allowance rate is a historical statistic describing what percentage of the examiner's decided applications were allowed in the past. It is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation across individual art units; a separate section of this page breaks down rates by art unit for more granular context.

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 2421
791 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

78%
higher than about 64% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2421
AU avg 61%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2421; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 29 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 28 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition748 decided applications

587 allowed
161 abandoned
Plus 43 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.5mo
disposed 34mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 40.3 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 23
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
78%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
16%

Interview benefit

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

without
71%
+18 pts
with
89%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 322 decided applications with an interview and 426 without.

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Questions about Examiner Oschta I Montoya

  • What is Examiner Montoya's allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 78%, meaning 78% of decided applications were allowed across hundreds of decided cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2400. For detailed art-unit-specific subject descriptors, see the art-unit section of this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Oschta I Montoya 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: 791 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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