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Examiner Jr. Campbell

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 88 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
14%vs 59% art-unit average45 pts

Examiner Jr. Campbell has allowed 12 of 88 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed12abandoned76pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Jr. Campbell maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) across one art unit. The examiner's pooled allowance rate stands at 14% across dozens of decided applications. This represents the percentage of applications that were allowed, calculated from the total of allowed and abandoned applications in the examiner's record. The allowance rate reflects the examiner's historical disposition on applications that have reached final status.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units into a single historical figure. The 14% allowance rate describes what occurred in past decided applications and reflects the examiner's overall record. This aggregate figure is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Different art units within TC 2100 may carry distinct technical requirements and prosecution patterns; the pooled rate smooths those differences into a single backward-looking metric.

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 2176
88 APPS · 14% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.

14% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 59%
DISPOSITION12 / 76 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.2 moart unit avg 23.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY43.8 moart unit avg 40.5 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 eligibility60%art unit 40%+20 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)85%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness98%art unit 87%+11 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness68%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW26%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW4%+22 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 39 decided applications with an interview and 49 without.

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Questions about Examiner Jr. Campbell

  • What is Jr. Campbell's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 14%, measured across dozens of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned). This is a historical figure derived from the examiner's pooled record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Jr. Campbell's record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2100, specifically art unit 2176.
  • Does this allowance rate apply to my application?
    The 14% rate is a summary of past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application. Individual application outcomes depend on claim scope, specification, prior art, and examination conduct.
  • What technology does this examiner work in?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jr. Campbell 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: 88 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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