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Examiner Michael D Meucci

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 75 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2008
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
35%vs 45% art-unit average10 pts

Examiner Michael D Meucci has allowed 26 of 75 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed26abandoned49pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Michael D Meucci maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across dozens of decided applications, his allowance rate is 35%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed out of all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned), with pending applications excluded from the calculation. His practice spans a single art unit within TC 2100. The allowance rate reflects the historical record of dispositions on applications examined by this examiner and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application.

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A pooled record aggregates all decided applications across an examiner's art units into a single allowance-rate figure. This aggregate describes the examiner's past examination activity and is factual history only—not a forecast for any particular application. Individual art units within TC 2100 may show different patterns. The pooled rate provides a broad view of examination outcomes but does not predict the result of any single case.

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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 2142
75 APPS · 35% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

35% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 45%
DISPOSITION26 / 49 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION37.2 moart unit avg 30.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY55 moart unit avg 48.3 mo
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW61%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW23%+38 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 23 decided applications with an interview and 52 without.

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Questions about Examiner Michael D Meucci

  • What is Michael D Meucci's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 35%, calculated across dozens of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), pooled across all art units. Pending applications are excluded from this figure.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Michael D Meucci's record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2100.
  • What technology center does this examiner work in?
    He works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled rate is a historical summary of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Michael D Meucci 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: 75 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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