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Examiner Carlo C Waje

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 251 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
71%vs 66% weighted peer average+5 pts

Examiner Carlo C Waje has allowed 179 of 251 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed179abandoned72pending62· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (66%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2182 · 70%AU 2151 · 76%
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What the data says.

Carlo C Waje maintains a pooled allowance rate of 71% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications that issued or were abandoned among all decided applications—ranges from 70% to 76% across these art units. This data reflects the examiner's historical record of allowances and abandonments and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

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A pooled record aggregates statistics across multiple art units, presenting an overall picture of an examiner's past decisions. The figures shown describe what occurred in previously decided applications and represent correlations observed in that historical data. They are not predictions about pending applications, nor do they indicate how any specific case will be examined. Applicants review pooled data to understand the examiner's aggregate background.

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 2182
197 APPS · 70% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines data-processing methods for specific functions, and processing data by its order or content.

70% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION138 / 59 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.3 moart unit avg 24.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.5 moart unit avg 37.3 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility56%art unit 30%+26 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)76%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness76%art unit 76%±0 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness93%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW82%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW49%+33 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 124 decided applications with an interview and 73 without.

ART UNIT 2151
116 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

76% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 57%
DISPOSITION41 / 13 / 62allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION37 moart unit avg 31.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY48.4 moart unit avg 44.1 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility66%art unit 53%+13 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)79%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness80%art unit 79%+1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness94%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW86%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW56%+30 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 36 decided applications with an interview and 18 without.

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Questions about Examiner Carlo C Waje

  • What is Carlo C Waje's overall allowance rate?
    71% of the examiner's decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) issued. This rate is based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units within TC 2100.
  • Do allowance rates vary across the examiner's art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 70% to 76% across the examiner's art units with substantial records.
  • Does a 71% allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. Historical allowance rates describe past decisions and are not predictions for any specific pending application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Carlo C Waje 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: 313 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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