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Examiner Roderick Tolentino

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 850 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
80%vs 68% weighted peer average+12 pts

Examiner Roderick Tolentino has allowed 682 of 850 decided applications.

682 allowed
168 abandoned
Plus 33 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (68%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2439 · 81%AU 2434 · 53%AU 2431 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Roderick Tolentino maintains a pooled allowance rate of 80% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans three art units: 2431, 2434, and 2439. The 80% allowance rate reflects the share of applications that issued as allowed or were abandoned among all decided applications in his pooled record. This figure describes his historical record and does not predict the outcome of any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, presenting an overall picture of the examiner's historical allowance rate. The 80% figure shown here is a composite across all three art units in TC 2400 where this examiner has decided applications. Pooled statistics describe past performance and are not predictions for individual applications. Applicants seeking art-unit-specific data may consult separate per-art-unit pages.

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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 2439
867 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 71% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439; 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.

Disposition834 decided applications

673 allowed
161 abandoned
Plus 33 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.1mo
disposed 40.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.9 mo, disposed 44.5 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
51%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
78%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 94
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
64%
+28 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 506 decided applications with an interview and 328 without.

ART UNIT 2434
15 APPS · 53% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

53%
higher than about 8% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2434
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2434; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 41 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 38 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition15 decided applications

8 allowed
7 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 40.7mo
disposed 68.1mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 41.8 mo.
ART UNIT 2431
1 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 72% of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 52 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 46 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition1 decided applications

1 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 2mo
disposed 7mo
0
12mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 35.1 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 40
100%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Roderick Tolentino

  • What is Examiner Tolentino's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 80%, measured as a share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across all three art units in his record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Tolentino has decided applications across three art units in Technology Center 2400: 2431, 2434, and 2439.
  • How large is the sample behind these figures?
    The pooled record spans hundreds of decided applications across all three art units.
  • Does this pooled rate apply to my specific application?
    No. Pooled figures describe historical aggregate data and are not predictions of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Roderick Tolentino 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: 883 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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