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Examiner Christian M Dorman

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 167 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT

Examiner Christian M Dorman has allowed 124 of 167 decided applications (74%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

74% pooled allowance · benchmarked per art unit below
DATA UPDATED JUNE 25, 2026
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Christian M Dorman maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across a single art unit, the examiner has disposed of 167 applications. Of those 167 decided applications, 124 were allowed and 43 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 74%. This rate reflects the examiner's historical record on applications that have reached final disposition and is calculated as a share of all decided cases, excluding any pending matters.

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This pooled record aggregates all art units under the examiner's jurisdiction and reflects dispositions already closed. The allowance rate of 74% describes past outcomes across 167 decided applications. Aggregate historical rates do not predict the outcome of any specific application. Each applicant's experience depends on the substance, claim scope, prior art, and examination record of their particular 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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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 2112
167 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines error detection, correction, and monitoring, and error-correcting coding/decoding.

74% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 89%
DISPOSITION124 / 43 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.2 moart unit avg 21.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32.8 moart unit avg 31.8 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
§101 — Subject-matter eligibility40% · art unit 26%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)64%
§103 — Obviousness90% · art unit 55%
§112 — Written description & definiteness80%
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW89%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW59%+30 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 87 decided applications with an interview and 80 without.

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Questions about Examiner Christian M Dorman

  • What is Christian M Dorman's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 74%, based on 167 disposed applications (124 allowed, 43 abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner works in one art unit: 2112, within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) that issued. It excludes pending applications and is not a prediction of any specific case.
  • Is the pooled rate representative of any particular art unit?
    This record is pooled across all the examiner's art units. It describes aggregate history and does not break out performance by individual art unit.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Christian M Dorman 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: 167 applications.

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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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