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Examiner Benjamin R Bruckart

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 58 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2008
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
43%vs 54% weighted peer average11 pts

Examiner Benjamin R Bruckart has allowed 25 of 58 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed25abandoned33pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (54%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2155 · 48%AU 2146 · 29%
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Benjamin R Bruckart maintains a 43% allowance rate across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His public record spans 2 art units within TC 2100. The allowance rate reflects the share of applications that received a final allowance among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined); pending applications are excluded from this calculation. This pooled figure aggregates activity across both art units and represents the examiner's historical record on decided cases.

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A pooled record combines statistics across all art units where an examiner works. The allowance rate shown here is an aggregate figure describing past decisions and does not constitute a prediction about any specific application. Because this record spans multiple art units, the overall rate reflects a mix of different subject areas and examination patterns. Individual art-unit records, available separately, may show variation from the pooled figure.

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◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2155
44 APPS · 48% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

48% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION21 / 23 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION38.9 moart unit avg 27.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY59.1 moart unit avg 42.2 mo
ART UNIT 2146
14 APPS · 29% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

29% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 50%
DISPOSITION4 / 10 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION41.5 moart unit avg 32 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY57 moart unit avg 45 mo
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Questions about Examiner Benjamin R Bruckart

  • What is Benjamin R Bruckart's allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 43%, calculated as the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that received allowance, across dozens of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does this pooled rate apply to my specific application?
    The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction for any particular application. Outcomes depend on the specific claims, prior art, and examination of individual cases.
  • What does the 'dozens of' figure mean?
    This indicates the magnitude of the decided-application dataset: the allowance rate is based on dozens of applications that reached a final decision (allowance or abandonment).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Benjamin R Bruckart 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: 58 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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