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Examiner Jeremy S Cerullo

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 246 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION NOV 2012
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
72%vs 82% weighted peer average10 pts

Examiner Jeremy S Cerullo has allowed 177 of 246 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed177abandoned69pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (82%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2111 · 68%AU 2112 · 86%
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What the data says.

Jeremy S Cerullo maintains a pooled allowance rate of 72% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His public record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 86% across these art units, reflecting variation in the composition and outcomes of applications examined within each unit. This pooled figure represents the proportion of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that issued as allowances, and does not include pending applications.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units within TC 2100. The 72% allowance rate describes historical outcomes on decided applications and is a descriptive statistic of past decisions. It is not predictive of any specific application's outcome. The range across art units (68% to 86%) reflects differences in application characteristics and examination within each unit, not variation in examiner conduct across them.

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 2111
188 APPS · 68% ALLOWANCE
68% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 80%
DISPOSITION127 / 61 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.6 moart unit avg 20.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY37.3 moart unit avg 31.7 mo
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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 eligibility14%art unit 21%7 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)28%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness71%art unit 72%1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness37%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW87%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW62%+25 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 39 decided applications with an interview and 149 without.

ART UNIT 2112
58 APPS · 86% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines error detection, correction, and monitoring, and error-correcting coding/decoding.

86% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 89%
DISPOSITION50 / 8 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.9 moart unit avg 21.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY34.1 moart unit avg 31.8 mo
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW75%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW90%-15 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 16 decided applications with an interview and 42 without.

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Questions about Examiner Jeremy S Cerullo

  • What is Jeremy S Cerullo's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 72% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 68% to 86% across the examiner's art units, reflecting differences in the applications examined within each.
  • Is the pooled rate predictive of my application?
    No. The 72% figure is a historical summary of decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome in any specific case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jeremy S Cerullo 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: 246 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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