Examiner Garrett A Smith has allowed 46 of 105 decided applications (44%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Garrett A Smith maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 105 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 46 and abandoned 59, yielding an allowance rate of 44% over the decided pool. The record spans a single art unit (2168). This allowance rate describes the examiner's historical dispositions and does not predict outcomes in any specific pending application.
This profile aggregates the examiner's record across all assigned art units in TC 2100. The 44% allowance rate is a historical average calculated from all decided applications—allowed plus abandoned—and excludes pending filings. Aggregate figures describe past dispositions and are not predictions about any individual 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 →
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 information retrieval and database structures.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 50 decided applications with an interview and 55 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Garrett A Smith 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: 105 applications.
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