Examiner Benjamin J Smith has allowed 281 of 432 decided applications (65%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Benjamin J Smith maintains a public record across 4 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Over 432 disposed applications, Smith's allowance rate is 65%, derived from 281 allowed and 151 abandoned applications. The allowance rate across his art units ranges from 51% to 95%, reflecting variation in the record by individual art unit. This pooled figure aggregates decisions across all assigned art units and describes the examiner's historical disposition pattern without predicting outcomes on any pending or future application.
A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, producing a single allowance-rate figure and a range showing the lowest and highest rates among those units. The pooled percentage describes past decisions and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application. Individual art-unit records, where available separately, may show different allowance rates. Pooled figures are useful for understanding an examiner's overall history but do not account for variation by subject matter or procedural posture within each art unit.
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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.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 162 decided applications with an interview and 62 without.
Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 41 decided applications with an interview and 59 without.
Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.
Based on 20 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Benjamin J Smith 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: 475 applications.
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