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Examiner Kimbleann C Verdi

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 198 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
77%vs 70% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Kimbleann C Verdi has allowed 153 of 198 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed153abandoned45pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (70%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2194 · 82%AU 2196 · 80%AU 2139 · 54%
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What the data says.

Kimbleann C Verdi maintains an allowance rate of 77% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans 3 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided applications—ranges from 54% to 82% across these art units. This range reflects variation in the examiner's record across different art-unit subject areas, though the pooled figure of 77% represents the overall allowance rate when all decided applications are combined.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's decided applications across multiple art units into a single allowance-rate figure. This aggregate describes the examiner's past record but is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. The range shown reflects the highest and lowest allowance rates among the examiner's art units; individual applications may fall anywhere within that spectrum or outside it entirely. Pooled data is useful for understanding broad historical performance while recognizing that outcomes vary by art unit and application.

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 2194
99 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

82% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 69%
DISPOSITION81 / 18 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION38 moart unit avg 28 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY56.3 moart unit avg 43.9 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility67%art unit 49%+18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)22%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness22%art unit 79%57 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness33%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW95%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW44%+51 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 74 decided applications with an interview and 25 without.

ART UNIT 2196
71 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

80% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 73%
DISPOSITION57 / 14 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION31.8 moart unit avg 27.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY52.5 moart unit avg 41.8 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility50%art unit 46%+4 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)28%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness98%art unit 86%+12 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness76%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW91%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW71%+20 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 33 decided applications with an interview and 38 without.

ART UNIT 2139
28 APPS · 54% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.

54% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 65%
DISPOSITION15 / 13 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.8 moart unit avg 24 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY48.7 moart unit avg 37.7 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility50%art unit 21%+29 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)64%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness82%art unit 80%+2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness68%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 28 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Kimbleann C Verdi

  • What is Kimbleann C Verdi's overall allowance rate?
    77% of decided applications (allowed or abandoned) across all art units in this examiner's record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    3 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 54% to 82% across these art units.
  • What does the 77% figure mean for my application?
    It describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications but is not a prediction for any specific case. Outcomes depend on application-specific facts and TC 2100 subject matter.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kimbleann C Verdi 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: 198 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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