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Last updated: October 25, 2026

USPTO Art Unit 2118: Examiners and Allowance Rates

60 examiners • 16 with pending office actions • Computing & Software (Tech Center 2100)

Art unit baseline (last 5 years, 1,635 dispositions): 43% allowance rate • 2.0 office actions per allowance • 1,117 days median pendency
ExaminerAllowance rateResolved casesPending apps
Ramesh B Patel100.0%10
Dominick L Plakkoottam100.0%10
Nicole N Ramos100.0%10
Wai K Yip100.0%10
Nam V Nguyen100.0%10
Michael William Kahelin100.0%10
Anibal Rivera100.0%10
Travis Sloan Chambers100.0%10
Vincent Huy Tran100.0%10
Jessica Weiss100.0%10
Mong-Shune Chung91.8%9812
Ronald D Hartman Jr.88.3%940
Rami Rafat Okasha86.4%8115
Dennis Butler86.2%1090
Yongjia Pan84.4%9024
Suresh Suryawanshi84.3%1400
Ariel Mercado Vargas83.8%9919
Thuan N Du83.3%1020
Xuxing Chen83.2%1840
Darrin D Dunn82.6%1380
Howard Cortes82.5%11425
Nicholas George Klicos81.5%8125
Mario M Velez-Lopez81.4%9719
Hua Lu80.3%14236
Mohammed H Rehman79.6%1470
Ji H Bae76.8%560
Eric Yoon76.7%6022
Marzia T Monty75.0%760
Seung Woon Jung75.0%240
Scott T Baderman75.0%208
Keshab R Pandey74.2%620
Jigneshkumar C Patel73.8%1030
Terrell S Johnson73.6%1440
Phil K Nguyen73.3%1760
Alvin H Tan73.1%7828
Volvick Derose71.9%640
Gayathri Sampath71.8%1170
Sumil Manubhai Desai71.4%210
Jennifer L Norton68.5%1080
Austin James Hicks68.4%1520
Aleksey Olshannikov67.5%8330
Rokeya Shawali Alam66.7%618
Santosh Raj Poudel64.9%940
Nathan L Laughlin64.9%940
Christopher W Carter64.4%900
Tejal Gami61.4%830
Cheri L. Harrington60.0%700
Alyaa T Mazyad59.5%840
Gary Collins57.1%280
Brynne Josephine Corcoran56.0%840
Tanh Q Nguyen50.5%1050
Jaweed A Abbaszadeh47.4%190
Jonathan Michael Skrzycki43.9%410
Shon G Foley42.9%350
Robert E Fennema15.4%130
Tameem Siddiquee11.1%90
Christopher B Robinson0.0%10
Chandni Patel—04
Andrew Macnaughton Barlow—03
Andrew David Oelberg—02

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the allowance rate in USPTO Art Unit 2118?

42.6% over the last five years, across 1,635 resolved applications.

Which examiners in Art Unit 2118 have the highest allowance rates?

Among examiners with at least 30 resolved applications: Mong-Shune Chung (91.8%, 98 resolved), Ronald D Hartman Jr. (88.3%, 94 resolved), Rami Rafat Okasha (86.4%, 81 resolved).

Which examiners in Art Unit 2118 have the lowest allowance rates?

Among examiners with at least 30 resolved applications: Shon G Foley (42.9%, 35 resolved), Jonathan Michael Skrzycki (43.9%, 41 resolved), Tanh Q Nguyen (50.5%, 105 resolved).

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