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Examiner Dawaune A Conyers

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 538 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
66%vs 55% weighted peer average+11 pts

Examiner Dawaune A Conyers has allowed 357 of 538 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed357abandoned181pending31· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (55%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2152 · 72%AU 2159 · 60%AU 2169 · 0%
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What the data says.

Dawaune A Conyers maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning three art units. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate stands at 66%. This rate represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The allowance rate ranges from 60% to 72% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation in the decided application sets within each unit. This pooled record aggregates activity across multiple art units and describes the examiner's historical decisions without reference to any single application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates allowance data across multiple art units into a single overall figure. This aggregate describes past decisions across different subject-matter areas and application types within TC 2100. The range of allowance rates across art units reflects differences in the decided application sets in each unit. Aggregate statistics characterize the examiner's historical record and are not predictions about the disposition of any specific application or art unit.

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 2152
320 APPS · 72% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

72% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 49%
DISPOSITION229 / 91 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.1 moart unit avg 28.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.2 moart unit avg 42.9 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 eligibility72%art unit 62%+10 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)26%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 88%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness38%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW78%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW61%+17 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 198 decided applications with an interview and 122 without.

ART UNIT 2159
244 APPS · 60% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

60% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION128 / 85 / 31allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.4 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY50.3 moart unit avg 45.1 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 eligibility55%art unit 55%±0 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)21%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness99%art unit 82%+17 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness36%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW78%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW43%+35 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 105 decided applications with an interview and 108 without.

ART UNIT 2169
5 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

0% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION0 / 5 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24.1 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32 moart unit avg 40 mo
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Questions about Examiner Dawaune A Conyers

  • What is Dawaune A Conyers' overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 66% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100, meaning 66% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner work across?
    The examiner's record spans three art units: 2152, 2159, and 2169, all within Technology Center 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 60% to 72% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation in the decided applications within each unit.
  • Does this pooled allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. These figures describe the examiner's historical record in aggregate and are not a prediction of any specific application's disposition.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Dawaune A Conyers 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: 569 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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