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Examiner Andrew R Dyer

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 524 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2023
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
57%vs 59% art-unit average2 pts

Examiner Andrew R Dyer has allowed 298 of 524 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed298abandoned226pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Andrew R Dyer's public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spans a single art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate stands at 57%. This figure represents the share of applications in the decided pool (allowed and abandoned combined, excluding pending matters) that issued as patents. The record reflects outcomes on completed examination histories and does not predict results on any individual application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all of the examiner's decided applications within TC 2100 across their assigned art unit(s). The 57% allowance rate describes past outcomes on completed cases and is a historical average, not a forecast. Pooled figures smooth variation that may exist within or across art units and reflect the examiner's overall record; they are correlational summaries of what occurred, not causal or predictive of future applications.

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 2176
524 APPS · 57% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.

57% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 59%
DISPOSITION298 / 226 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.3 moart unit avg 23.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY41.9 moart unit avg 40.5 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 eligibility51%art unit 40%+11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)80%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness96%art unit 87%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness80%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW77%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW35%+42 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 273 decided applications with an interview and 251 without.

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Questions about Examiner Andrew R Dyer

  • What is Andrew R Dyer's allowance rate?
    57% of decided applications in his pooled record issued as patents. This is the share of allowed applications within the decided pool (allowed plus abandoned), excluding pending cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    One art unit. The pooled record aggregates all of his decided applications within Technology Center 2100.
  • How large is the sample behind this record?
    The record spans hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units assigned to this examiner in TC 2100.
  • Does this record predict outcomes on my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes past outcomes on completed examination histories 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 Andrew R Dyer 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: 524 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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