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Examiner Asteway T Gattew

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 172 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
50%vs 49% art-unit average+1 pt

Examiner Asteway T Gattew has allowed 86 of 172 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed86abandoned86pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Examiner Asteway T Gattew maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning a single art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 50%. This represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The examiner's pooled record covers one art unit within TC 2100.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile presents pooled data aggregated across all art units in which the examiner has decided applications. The allowance rate of 50% describes the examiner's historical record and does not predict the outcome of any specific application. Pooled figures mask variation between individual art units; detailed breakdowns by art unit appear separately. Aggregate statistics are correlational—they reflect past decisions but are not causal indicators for future cases.

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 2173
172 APPS · 50% ALLOWANCE
50% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 49%
DISPOSITION86 / 86 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.6 moart unit avg 25.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY43 moart unit avg 40.1 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 eligibility58%art unit 39%+19 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)86%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 87%+8 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness42%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW65%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW38%+27 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 77 decided applications with an interview and 95 without.

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Questions about Examiner Asteway T Gattew

  • What is Examiner Gattew's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 50%, calculated as allowed applications divided by all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned), across hundreds of decided cases. Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit in TC 2100.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is a historical statistic showing what share of the examiner's decided applications resulted in allowance. It does not predict outcomes on individual applications and does not account for application complexity, claim scope, or prosecution strategy.
  • Can I use this data to predict my application's outcome?
    No. Allowance rates are historical aggregates and are not predictions. Each application's outcome depends on claim language, prior art, and the specific facts of examination—not on an examiner's historical rate alone.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Asteway T Gattew 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: 172 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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