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Examiner Dara J Glasser

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 167 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
59%vs 62% art-unit average3 pts

Examiner Dara J Glasser has allowed 99 of 167 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed99abandoned68pending13· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Dara J Glasser maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate is 59%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed, calculated as a share of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The examiner's record spans one art unit within TC 2100. The allowance rate is a historical measure of past dispositions and does not predict the outcome of any specific application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates decisions across multiple art units, where applicable, to show an examiner's overall allowance rate. The 59% figure reflects past allowed and abandoned applications and is a correlational summary, not a predictor. Individual art units may differ from the pooled rate. Pooled data provides context about an examiner's historical record but does not determine the merit or outcome of any particular application.

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
180 APPS · 59% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

59% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION99 / 68 / 13allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.9 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.9 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 eligibility51%art unit 52%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)87%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 88%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness80%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW74%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW24%+50 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 117 decided applications with an interview and 50 without.

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Questions about Examiner Dara J Glasser

  • What is Dara J Glasser's overall allowance rate?
    59% of decided applications were allowed. This is calculated from all allowed and abandoned applications, excluding pending cases. The rate is a historical measure only.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    This record covers one art unit within TC 2100. The pooled allowance rate of 59% spans that single art unit.
  • What does the allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The 59% allowance rate is a summary of past decisions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. It reflects historical dispositions only.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    This examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Dara J Glasser 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: 180 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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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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