Examiner Kellye Dee Buckingham has allowed 87 of 143 decided applications (61%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Kellye Dee Buckingham maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 143 disposed applications, 87 were allowed and 56 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 61%. This figure represents the examiner's pooled record across a single art unit. The data reflects completed decisions only and excludes pending applications.
This pooled record aggregates examination activity across the examiner's art units and represents historical allowance and abandonment statistics. The allowance rate of 61% describes the share of decided applications that were allowed in the past. Aggregate figures describe a historical record and are not predictions about the outcome of any particular application. Individual art units may show variation from the overall rate.
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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 61 decided applications with an interview and 82 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kellye Dee Buckingham 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: 143 applications.
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