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Examiner Kimberly N Mclean Mayo

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 182 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAY 2009
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
88%vs 72% art-unit average+16 pts

Examiner Kimberly N Mclean Mayo has allowed 161 of 182 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed161abandoned21pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Kimberly N Mclean Mayo maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Her pooled allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications is 88%. This figure represents the percentage of applications in her record that were allowed or abandoned, excluding pending cases. The examiner's record spans a single art unit, providing a consolidated view of her decided applications within TC 2100.

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This record aggregates decided applications across all art units where the examiner has issued decisions. The allowance rate of 88% describes her past record and reflects the proportion of applications that were allowed or abandoned among those decisions. Pooled figures represent historical outcomes, not predictions about any specific pending application. Individual art units may have different outcome distributions.

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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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 2187
182 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

88% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION161 / 21 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.2 moart unit avg 23.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.4 moart unit avg 36.4 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW41%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW95%-54 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 22 decided applications with an interview and 160 without.

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Questions about Examiner Kimberly N Mclean Mayo

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 88%, representing allowed and abandoned applications as a share of all decided applications across her record in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit in Technology Center 2100.
  • How large is the dataset behind these figures?
    These figures are pooled across hundreds of decided applications in the examiner's record.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes past outcomes only and is not a prediction of any specific pending application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kimberly N Mclean Mayo 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: 182 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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