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Examiner Adam C Standke

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 136 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
51%vs 65% weighted peer average14 pts

Examiner Adam C Standke has allowed 69 of 136 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed69abandoned67pending42· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (65%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2129 · 50%AU 2122 · 71%
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What the data says.

Adam C Standke maintains a public record across 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His pooled allowance rate stands at 51% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided matters—those issued as allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications. The allowance rate is calculated from the examiner's complete record across both art units combined.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data from multiple art units within TC 2100. Aggregate figures describe the examiner's historical record and are not predictions of any specific application outcome. Allowance rates reflect past decisions on decided applications only and vary by applicant, claim scope, prior art, and other prosecution-specific factors. A pooled rate across art units provides a broad overview; individual art-unit records may differ and appear separately.

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 2129
171 APPS · 50% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

50% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 65%
DISPOSITION64 / 65 / 42allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION30.4 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY52.8 moart unit avg 42.3 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility62%art unit 62%±0 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)96%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness98%art unit 76%+22 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness78%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW58%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW34%+24 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 85 decided applications with an interview and 44 without.

ART UNIT 2122
7 APPS · 71% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

71% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION5 / 2 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.3 moart unit avg 27.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY33 moart unit avg 39.3 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility71%art unit 55%+16 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)86%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 83%+17 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness71%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 7 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Adam C Standke

  • What is Adam C Standke's allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 51% across hundreds of decided applications. This represents the percentage of applications that issued as allowed among all decided matters (allowed and abandoned combined) across both of his art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Adam C Standke works across 2 art units within Technology Center 2100, covering Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
  • Does the allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application. Outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, arguments, prosecution history, and other application-specific factors.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean in the allowance rate?
    Decided applications include those that were allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation. The 51% figure reflects only closed matters.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Adam C Standke 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: 178 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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