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Examiner Sori A Aga

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 420 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
76%vs 81% weighted peer average5 pts

Examiner Sori A Aga has allowed 321 of 420 decided applications.

321 allowed
99 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (81%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2476 · 78%AU 2419 · 55%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Sori A Aga maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning 2 art units. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 76%. This rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the pooled record. The allowance rate varies across the examiner's art units, ranging from 55% to 78%. This spread illustrates differences in allowance outcomes between the individual art units within the examiner's portfolio. The figures presented describe the historical record and do not constitute predictions about any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates allowance data across multiple art units within Technology Center 2400. The overall 76% figure represents the combined allowance rate across all decided applications handled by this examiner. Because the record spans different art units, the aggregate allowance rate masks variation among those units—reflected in the 55% to 78% range. Pooled statistics describe past outcomes and are not predictions of future results for any individual application or art unit.

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.2 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 2476
398 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

78%
higher than about 28% of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2476
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2476; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition398 decided applications

309 allowed
89 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.6mo
disposed 40.7mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.6 mo, disposed 39 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 19
21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
64%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
86%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
34%

Interview benefit

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

without
76%
+12 pts
with
88%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 48 decided applications with an interview and 350 without.

ART UNIT 2419
22 APPS · 55% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

55%
higher than about 40% of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition22 decided applications

12 allowed
10 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 39.3mo
disposed 48mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Sori A Aga

  • What is Sori A Aga's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 76% across all decided applications in the pooled record. This represents the share of allowed applications among all allowed and abandoned (decided) applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Sori A Aga's record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 55% to 78% across the examiner's art units. This variation reflects differences in outcomes between the individual art units.
  • What does this pooled record tell me about a specific application?
    The pooled figures describe historical outcomes and are not predictions of the outcome of any particular application. Actual prosecution results depend on application-specific facts, rejections, and responses.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sori A Aga 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: 420 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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