Examiner Alford W Kindred has allowed 127 of 184 decided applications (69%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Alford W Kindred maintains a public record across 7 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Of 184 disposed applications, 127 were allowed, yielding an overall allowance rate of 69%. The allowance rate varies across the examiner's art units, ranging from 72% to 82%. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units and reflects the proportion of decided applications that received allowances in the past record.
A pooled record aggregates an examiner's work across multiple art units into a single allowance rate. This overall figure describes past dispositions and is not a prediction about any specific application. The range (72% to 82%) indicates variation among the individual art units but does not identify which unit has which rate. Pooled data is useful for understanding an examiner's aggregate record across their assigned technology center.
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 →
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.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Primarily examines interconnection and data transfer between memory, I/O, and processing units, and program control and execution.
Based on 12 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Based on 4 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Primarily examines error detection, correction, and monitoring.
Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Primarily examines data-processing methods for specific functions, and processing data by its order or content.
Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alford W Kindred 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 June 25, 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: 184 applications.
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