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Examiner Mark A Radtke

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 168 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2012
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
64%vs 63% art-unit average+1 pt

Examiner Mark A Radtke has allowed 107 of 168 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed107abandoned61pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Mark A Radtke maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across art unit 2165, his pooled record spans hundreds of decided applications. The allowance rate across these decided applications is 64%, meaning that of applications with final dispositions (allowed or abandoned), 64% were allowed. This figure represents the examiner's historical record and covers the entirety of decided cases in the art unit, without regard to pending matters.

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A pooled record aggregates statistics across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate shown is a historical summary—a snapshot of past decisions on applications with final outcomes. It describes what occurred across hundreds of prior cases and does not constitute a prediction about any individual pending or future application. Applicants review such data to understand an examiner's past record in their technology area.

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 2165
168 APPS · 64% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

64% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION107 / 61 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.6 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY56.4 moart unit avg 39.6 mo
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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 eligibility36%art unit 54%18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)61%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness54%art unit 82%28 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness14%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW83%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW48%+35 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 75 decided applications with an interview and 93 without.

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Questions about Examiner Mark A Radtke

  • What is Mark A Radtke's overall allowance rate?
    Across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100, the allowance rate is 64%. This is the percentage of applications with final dispositions (allowed or abandoned) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record covers 1 art unit: 2165. The statistics shown are aggregated across all applications in that art unit.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is the share of decided applications (those with final outcomes) that were allowed. It does not include pending applications and is based on historical data, not a forecast of any specific case.
  • What technology area does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's record is in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), art unit 2165.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mark A Radtke 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: 168 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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