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Last updated: October 27, 2026

Carlos Alberto Espana, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as ESPANA, CARLOS ALBERTO

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2196 2199 2441

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Analysis

ESPANA, CARLOS ALBERTO is assigned to tech center 2400 and art unit 2196. The profile records 30 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 66.7%. The median time to allowance is 1293 days. The limited case count makes the figures preliminary, while the allowance rate shows that a majority of the observed matters reached allowance after a lengthy median period.

The interview lift is 27.8%, showing a positive association with allowance outcomes. Sony Group Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, and VMware, Inc. are the listed top companies. The listed firms are 2SPL Patent Attorneys, BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP, and Dority & Manning, P.A. and Red Hat, Inc. Counsel may consider interviews where they can directly address the examiner’s principal concerns.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

66.7%
Allow Rate
+8.7% vs TC avg
67
Total Applications
+27.8%
Interview Lift
1293
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 30 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.1%
§101 Eligibility
11.5%
§102 Novelty
59.4%
§103 Obviousness
11.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17673246 User-Interface-Based Fleetwide Agent Installation With Intelligent Nudges Final Rejection Google LLC
17775275 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18926685 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SCHEME Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
18145868 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING EXECUTION OF A TASK Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18941157 CONTAINER MIGRATION DEVICE, CONTAINER MIGRATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18356298 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK (DNN) COMPUTE LOADING AND TRAFFIC-AWARE POWER MANAGEMENT FOR MULTI-CORE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18085914 EVICTION OF SUBPROCESS PODS IN A SERVERLESS WORKFLOW Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17816031 MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCE SHARING AMONG DEVICES OPERATING ON DIFFERENT PLATFORMS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17955110 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO INDICATE BLOCK MAXIMUM Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18843252 ASSET INFORMATION COLLECTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION
18630343 AUTOSCALING FOR MICROSERVICES Non-Final OA SAP SE
17975858 USING RULE ENGINE FOR MANAGING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE OBJECTS IN AN OPERATOR FRAMEWORK Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
18245659 A TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING TRANSACTIONS IN A SYSTEM EMPLOYING TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY Final Rejection ARM LIMITED
18336420 GPU Circuit Self-Context Save During Context Unmap Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Carlos Alberto Espana's allowance rate?

66.7% of resolved applications examined by Carlos Alberto Espana were allowed (30 resolved cases), compared with 71.7% across Art Unit 2196 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Carlos Alberto Espana?

This examiner's interview lift is +27.8 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Carlos Alberto Espana take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Carlos Alberto Espana took 1,293 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Carlos Alberto Espana work in?

Carlos Alberto Espana examines applications in Art Unit 2196 in Tech Center 2400 (Networking & Security).

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