Examiner Michael J Simitoski has allowed 79 of 114 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Michael J Simitoski maintains a pooled allowance rate of 69% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). This rate reflects the percentage of applications that received a final disposition of allowance or abandonment. The examiner's public record spans one art unit. The 69% allowance rate is based on the aggregated outcomes of all decided applications handled in that art unit. This figure describes past dispositions and does not indicate the outcome of any pending or future application.
This record pools all decided applications across the examiner's art units. The allowance rate is an aggregate of past dispositions—allowed and abandoned applications combined—and reflects historical outcomes only. Aggregate figures describe what occurred over a completed set of applications, not what will occur in any specific pending case. Different art units may have different profiles. A pooled rate masks variation across those units and is informational context, not predictive.
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 network security, and computer and data security.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 46 decided applications with an interview and 68 without.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Michael J Simitoski 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: 114 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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