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Examiner Chelcie L Daye

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 736 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
75%vs 62% art-unit average+13 pts

Examiner Chelcie L Daye has allowed 551 of 736 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed551abandoned185pending19· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Chelcie L Daye maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across one art unit, the examiner has decided hundreds of applications. The overall allowance rate across all decided applications in this pooled record is 75%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all applications with a final disposition (allowed or abandoned). The record reflects past examination outcomes and does not project results for any specific application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates examination data across all art units where the examiner has worked. The allowance rate shown is a historical aggregate—a snapshot of past decisions—and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application. Pooled figures combine different subject areas and examination contexts. Individual applications vary in complexity, claim scope, and prior art. The aggregate statistic describes what occurred across many applications, not what will occur in any one case.

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 2161
755 APPS · 75% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

75% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION551 / 185 / 19allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.3 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.5 moart unit avg 39 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 eligibility44%art unit 52%8 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)69%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness86%art unit 88%2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness33%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW84%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW69%+15 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 290 decided applications with an interview and 446 without.

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Questions about Examiner Chelcie L Daye

  • What is Chelcie L Daye's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 75% across all decided applications in the public record. This is the percentage of applications that received an allowance among all applications with a final disposition.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans one art unit within TC 2100.
  • What technology area does this examiner work in?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    The allowance rate measures the percentage of applications with a final decision (allowed or abandoned) that received an allowance. It excludes pending applications and describes the examiner's historical record only, not predictions for future cases.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Chelcie L Daye 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: 755 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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