Examiner Chad G Erdman has allowed 515 of 631 decided applications (82%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Chad G Erdman maintains a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His pooled allowance rate is 82% over 631 disposed applications. Among the art units in which he maintains a substantial record, allowance rates range from 76% to 82%. The record aggregates decisions across multiple art units within TC 2100 and represents past dispositions only.
A pooled, cross-art-unit record combines allowance data from multiple art units into a single overall figure. This aggregate describes the examiner's historical output across those units and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. The range reflects variation among individual art units; the overall rate is a weighted average of decisions already made.
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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.
Primarily examines control or regulating systems.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 216 decided applications with an interview and 281 without.
Primarily examines control or regulating systems, and electric power networks.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 57 decided applications with an interview and 48 without.
Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.
Based on 29 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Chad G Erdman 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: 678 applications.
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