Examiner Harold A Hotelling has allowed 47 of 102 decided applications (46%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Harold A Hotelling maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His pooled record spans a single art unit and covers 102 disposed applications. Of those 102 decided applications, 47 were allowed and 55 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 46%. This rate is based solely on applications with final dispositions and does not include any pending matters. The record reflects outcomes across all art units in which this examiner has activity.
This examiner's record aggregates activity across one art unit and presents pooled allowance data. The 46% allowance rate describes historical outcomes on decided applications and reflects past dispositions only. Aggregate figures across multiple art units do not predict outcomes in any individual application or art unit. Different art units may have different technologies, procedural postures, and applicant characteristics, and this pooled statistic masks any such variation.
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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.
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 57 decided applications with an interview and 45 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Harold A Hotelling 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: 102 applications.
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