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Examiner Sargon N Nano

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 923 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
86%vs 73% weighted peer average+13 pts

Examiner Sargon N Nano has allowed 790 of 923 decided applications.

790 allowed
133 abandoned
Plus 55 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (73%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2457 · 84%AU 2443 · 90%AU 2447 · 82%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Sargon N Nano maintains a public record across three art units within Technology Center 2400. His pooled allowance rate stands at 86% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned). The allowance rate ranges from 84% to 90% across these art units. This record spans hundreds of decided applications in aggregate. The public record reflects the examiner's historical decisions across multiple areas of practice within TC 2400 and does not indicate the disposition of any pending or future application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decisions across three separate art units, each of which may have different subject matter focuses within TC 2400. The overall figures—the 86% allowance rate and the 84%–90% range—describe past outcomes in aggregate and are historical descriptors only. Pooled statistics do not predict any individual application's outcome and mask variation among the examiner's different art-unit portfolios. Per-art-unit detail appears in a separate section of this page.

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 2457
594 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

84%
higher than about 72% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2457
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2457; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 40 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition594 decided applications

496 allowed
98 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20mo
disposed 38.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 39.3 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 39
56%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
70%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 73
61%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
32%

Interview benefit

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

without
83%
+1 pt
with
84%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 280 decided applications with an interview and 314 without.

ART UNIT 2443
367 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

90%
higher than about 73% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition312 decided applications

280 allowed
Plus 55 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.3mo
disposed 21.7mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.1 mo, disposed 40.7 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 37
65%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
66%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
63%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
25%

Interview benefit

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

without
86%
+7 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 178 decided applications with an interview and 134 without.

ART UNIT 2447
17 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

82%
higher than about 61% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2447
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2447; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 41 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition17 decided applications

14 allowed
3 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 32mo
disposed 67mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 37.4 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 35
50%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
50%

Based on 17 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Sargon N Nano

  • What is the examiner's overall allowance rate?
    Sargon N Nano's pooled allowance rate is 86%, computed as a percentage of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across his three art units in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner works across three art units: 2443, 2447, and 2457, all within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 84% to 90% across the examiner's art units. This range reflects variation in the examiner's historical record across different areas of practice.
  • How many applications does this record cover?
    The pooled record spans hundreds of decided applications. Specific counts appear in the statistics boxes on this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sargon N Nano 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: 978 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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