Examiner Hope Cornell Sheffield has allowed 174 of 263 decided applications (66%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Hope Cornell Sheffield has a public record of 263 disposed applications across 3 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Of those decided applications, 174 were allowed and 89 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 66%. The examiner's allowance rate varies across the art units served, ranging from 60% to 90%. This pooled record reflects the aggregate of her work across multiple art units and does not break down to individual unit performance.
A pooled record aggregates an examiner's decisions across all art units where she has examined applications. The overall allowance rate (66% here) and the stated range (60% to 90%) describe her historical record as a whole. These figures are descriptive of past dispositions, not predictive of outcomes in any specific application. Art-unit-specific rates appear separately in detailed breakdowns.
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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.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 130 decided applications with an interview and 64 without.
Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.
Based on 49 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Based on 20 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hope Cornell Sheffield 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: 263 applications.
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