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Examiner Aaron J Lowenberger

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 202 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAY 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
48%vs 49% art-unit average1 pt

Examiner Aaron J Lowenberger has allowed 96 of 202 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed96abandoned106pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Aaron J Lowenberger maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 48%, meaning that of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), 48% were allowed. The record spans a single art unit. This pooled figure reflects the examiner's overall disposition across all applications in this art unit during the period covered, aggregating both allowed and abandoned decisions without regard to pending applications.

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This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art units, producing a single allowance-rate figure. That figure describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Aggregate statistics reflect historical patterns but do not control or predict individual case results. Each application's merits, claim scope, prior art, and procedural history are distinct.

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 →

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The record, art unit by 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 2173
202 APPS · 48% ALLOWANCE
48% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 49%
DISPOSITION96 / 106 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24.4 moart unit avg 25.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY47.3 moart unit avg 40.1 mo
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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 eligibility58%art unit 39%+19 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)92%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness99%art unit 87%+12 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness67%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW68%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW18%+50 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 120 decided applications with an interview and 82 without.

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Questions about Examiner Aaron J Lowenberger

  • What is Aaron J Lowenberger's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 48% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record covers one art unit.
  • What does the 48% allowance rate mean?
    Of all applications on which the examiner issued a final decision (allowance or abandonment), 48% were allowed. Pending applications are excluded from this calculation. This is a historical aggregate and not a prediction for any individual case.
  • What technology does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Aaron J Lowenberger has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 14, 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: 202 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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