Examiner Malcolm Cribbs has allowed 84 of 92 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Malcolm Cribbs maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across dozens of decided applications, his allowance rate is 91%. This means that of all applications with a final disposition in his record—those allowed or abandoned—91% were allowed. The allowance rate is calculated from decided cases only; pending applications are excluded. His practice spans a single art unit, consolidating his record within one defined subject-matter area of the technology center.
A pooled record aggregates all decided applications across an examiner's art units into a single overall allowance-rate figure. This aggregate describes past outcomes and reflects the examiner's historical pattern. The allowance rate is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Different art units within TC 2100 may have different characteristics, and this pooled figure combines them. Individual art-unit records are available separately for more granular analysis.
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 →
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 control or regulating systems, and electric power networks.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 28 decided applications with an interview and 64 without.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Malcolm Cribbs 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: 92 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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