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Examiner Sarah E Drabik

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 113 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2014
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
38%vs 59% art-unit average21 pts
higher than about 22% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 42 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 41 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Sarah E Drabik has allowed 43 of 113 decided applications.

43 allowed
70 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Sarah E Drabik maintains a public record across one art unit in Technology Center 2400. Her pooled allowance rate stands at 38% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in her record. The 38% rate reflects her historical allowance practice in decided cases, aggregated across her assigned art unit. This pooled figure describes past outcomes and does not characterize performance in any individual application or predict outcomes in future cases.

How to read these numbers.

This examiner's record is pooled across all her assigned art units, presenting an aggregate view of decided applications. The allowance rate shown—38%—combines all allowed and abandoned applications across those units into a single historical figure. Pooled rates describe the examiner's past record in aggregate and are not predictions of outcomes in any specific pending or future application. Individual art units may show different patterns; per-unit detail appears in separate sections of this page.

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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 2455
113 APPS · 38% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

38%
higher than about 22% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2455; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 42 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 41 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition113 decided applications

43 allowed
70 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 34.4mo
disposed 59.4mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 41.5 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
43%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
54%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
91%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
80%

Interview benefit

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

without
32%
+16 pts
with
48%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 44 decided applications with an interview and 69 without.

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Questions about Examiner Sarah E Drabik

  • What is Sarah E Drabik's overall allowance rate?
    Her pooled allowance rate is 38% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the percentage of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does she cover?
    Sarah E Drabik's public record spans one art unit in TC 2400.
  • Does the pooled rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual results vary based on case-specific facts and arguments.
  • What does the 38% figure include?
    The 38% rate reflects allowed applications as a percentage of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sarah E Drabik 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: 113 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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