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Examiner Amy M Levy

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 465 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JAN 2023
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
56%vs 52% weighted peer average+4 pts

Examiner Amy M Levy has allowed 260 of 465 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed260abandoned205pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (52%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2179 · 54%AU 2173 · 66%
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What the data says.

Amy M Levy maintains a public record across two art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, her pooled allowance rate is 56%. This reflects the share of her decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that resulted in allowance. The allowance rate ranges from 54% to 66% across her art units, indicating variation in outcomes by subject-matter area within the technology center.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units in TC 2100. The overall allowance rate describes past performance across all decided applications handled by this examiner and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Variation across art units reflects differences in subject matter and prosecution patterns. Pooled figures mask individual art-unit performance; detailed per-art-unit records 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 2179
404 APPS · 54% ALLOWANCE
54% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION220 / 184 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.5 moart unit avg 26.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.9 moart unit avg 43.3 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 eligibility56%art unit 39%+17 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)83%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 86%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness75%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW65%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW41%+24 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 230 decided applications with an interview and 174 without.

ART UNIT 2173
61 APPS · 66% ALLOWANCE
66% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 49%
DISPOSITION40 / 21 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.6 moart unit avg 25.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY34.1 moart unit avg 40.1 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 eligibility48%art unit 39%+9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)87%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 87%+13 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness72%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW68%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW60%+8 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 41 decided applications with an interview and 20 without.

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Questions about Examiner Amy M Levy

  • What is Amy M Levy's overall allowance rate?
    Her pooled allowance rate across all decided applications is 56%, meaning that share of her decided applications (allowed and abandoned) resulted in allowance.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    She works across two art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 54% to 66% across her art units, reflecting differences in subject matter and prosecution patterns within TC 2100.
  • Is the pooled allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes past outcomes across hundreds of decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Amy M Levy 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: 465 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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