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Examiner Vitali A Korobov

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 220 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2017
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
67%vs 59% art-unit average+8 pts
higher than about 49% 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 Vitali A Korobov has allowed 147 of 220 decided applications.

147 allowed
73 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Vitali A Korobov maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. His pooled allowance rate is 67% across hundreds of decided applications. This means that of all applications decided in his record—those allowed or abandoned—67% were allowed. The record reflects dispositions in a single art unit and does not forecast outcomes for any particular application or filing strategy.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates statistics across multiple art units (or in this case, one art unit) and represents historical dispositions. The overall allowance rate describes what fraction of past decided applications were allowed. Aggregate figures describe the examiner's past record and are not predictions about any specific application or prosecution path.

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 2455
220 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

67%
higher than about 49% 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.

Disposition220 decided applications

147 allowed
73 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 26.3mo
disposed 48.2mo
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
76%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
69%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
43%

Interview benefit

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

without
59%
+33 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 53 decided applications with an interview and 167 without.

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Questions about Examiner Vitali A Korobov

  • What is Examiner Korobov's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 67%, meaning 67% of his decided applications across all art units were allowed.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record spans one art unit in TC 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    It is the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all of the examiner's art units. It does not include pending applications and is not a prediction for any specific case.
  • How large is the sample behind this record?
    The pooled record is based on hundreds of decided applications.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Vitali A Korobov 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: 220 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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