Examiner Andrew L Nalven has allowed 101 of 153 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Andrew L Nalven maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) across one art unit. The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 66% across hundreds of decided applications. This rate reflects the share of applications in the decided category—those allowed or abandoned—and excludes pending matters. The 66% figure represents the examiner's historical record in this technology center and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application.
This record aggregates examination activity across all art units in which the examiner works. The pooled allowance rate of 66% describes past decisions on applications that have been concluded (allowed or abandoned). Aggregate statistics characterize an examiner's historical pattern and are not predictions about the outcome of any individual application. Individual art units may show different rates; those figures 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 →
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 network security, and computer and data security.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 16 decided applications with an interview and 137 without.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Andrew L Nalven 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: 153 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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