Examiner Matthew J Brophy has allowed 483 of 686 decided applications (70%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Matthew J Brophy maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 711 total applications, 483 have been allowed and 203 abandoned, yielding 686 disposed applications. The allowance rate is 70% of decided applications. The examiner's record spans one art unit. This pooled figure aggregates outcomes across all art units in the examiner's portfolio and describes the historical disposition of applications examined.
A pooled record aggregates data across all art units assigned to the examiner. The allowance rate reflects past outcomes on decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and excludes pending filings. Aggregate figures describe what has occurred in the examiner's record and are not predictions about how any individual application will be examined or decided. Pooled rates reflect a mix of art-unit workloads and are most useful as a general baseline of historical dispositions.
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 software engineering, and error detection, correction, and monitoring.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 307 decided applications with an interview and 379 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Matthew J Brophy 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 June 25, 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: 711 applications.
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