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Examiner Lauren Zannah Ganger

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 305 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAY 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 67% weighted peer average+17 pts

Examiner Lauren Zannah Ganger has allowed 255 of 305 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed255abandoned50pending21· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (67%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2167 · 81%AU 2156 · 98%
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What the data says.

Lauren Zannah Ganger maintains an 84% allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Her public record spans 2 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate ranges from 81% to 98% across these art units, reflecting variation in the composition of applications decided in each unit. This pooled figure represents allowed applications as a percentage of all decided applications—those allowed and abandoned—and does not include pending matters.

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How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates decisions across multiple art units within TC 2100. The pooled allowance rate describes past decisions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Cross-art-unit records combine different subject areas and examiner workloads, so the overall rate masks variation among units. The range shown here illustrates that spread. Any specific application's path depends on claim scope, prior art, and examination details unique to that case.

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 2167
257 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION208 / 49 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.6 moart unit avg 24.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32 moart unit avg 41.2 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 eligibility26%art unit 43%17 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)89%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness75%art unit 75%±0 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness42%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW86%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW78%+8 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 88 decided applications with an interview and 169 without.

ART UNIT 2156
69 APPS · 98% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

98% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 69%
DISPOSITION47 / 1 / 21allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION16.4 moart unit avg 20.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY20 moart unit avg 40.1 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 eligibility35%art unit 55%20 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)82%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness60%art unit 84%24 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness34%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW100%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW97%+3 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 16 decided applications with an interview and 32 without.

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Questions about Examiner Lauren Zannah Ganger

  • What is Lauren Zannah Ganger's overall allowance rate?
    84% of her decided applications in TC 2100 were allowed, measured as a percentage of applications with final decisions (allowed or abandoned), excluding pending cases.
  • How many art units does her record span?
    2 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across her art units?
    Allowance rates range from 81% to 98% across these art units, reflecting differences in application mix and volume in each unit.
  • Is the 84% allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This is a historical aggregate of hundreds of decided applications. It does not predict the outcome of any individual case, which depends on claim details, prior art, and examination-specific factors.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Lauren Zannah Ganger 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: 326 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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