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Examiner George B Davis

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 157 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JAN 2007
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
85%vs 60% weighted peer average+25 pts

Examiner George B Davis has allowed 134 of 157 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed134abandoned23pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (60%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2121 · 96%AU 2129 · 63%
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What the data says.

George B Davis maintains an 85% allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans 2 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate ranges from 63% to 96% across these art units, reflecting variation in the composition and outcomes of applications examined in each unit. This pooled figure represents allowed and abandoned applications only; pending applications are excluded from the calculation.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units into a single pooled allowance rate. The aggregate figure describes the historical record of decided applications and does not constitute a prediction about any specific application. When an examiner works across multiple art units, individual unit rates may differ from the pooled rate. The range shown reflects this variation but does not indicate which outcomes apply to which art units or technologies.

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 2121
105 APPS · 96% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

96% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 57%
DISPOSITION101 / 4 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION26.2 moart unit avg 27 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44.4 moart unit avg 39.9 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW81%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW99%-18 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 16 decided applications with an interview and 89 without.

ART UNIT 2129
52 APPS · 63% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

63% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 65%
DISPOSITION33 / 19 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION26.3 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY41.5 moart unit avg 42.3 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW50%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW73%-23 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 22 decided applications with an interview and 30 without.

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Questions about Examiner George B Davis

  • What is George B Davis's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 85% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    George B Davis has a public record spanning 2 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    Allowance rates range from 63% to 96% across the examiner's art units.
  • Does the pooled rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes the historical record of decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner George B Davis 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: 157 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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