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Examiner Michal Lawrence Bogacki

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 130 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2023
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
91%vs 57% weighted peer average+34 pts

Examiner Michal Lawrence Bogacki has allowed 118 of 130 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed118abandoned12pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (57%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2157 · 92%AU 2156 · 80%
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What the data says.

Michal Lawrence Bogacki maintains a pooled allowance rate of 91% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His public record spans 2 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate reflects the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in his record; pending applications are excluded from this calculation. This aggregate figure describes his historical performance across the decided caseload and does not constitute a prediction for any particular application.

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This record aggregates data across multiple art units within TC 2100, pooling allowance rates and application volumes. An aggregate allowance rate describes the examiner's past performance on all decided applications within the pooled set and is correlational data only—not causal analysis and not predictive of outcomes on individual filings. Art-unit-specific records, where available, may show variation from pooled figures.

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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The record, art unit by art unit.

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 2157
115 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

92% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION106 / 9 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION19.1 moart unit avg 28 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.1 moart unit avg 46.6 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility34%art unit 48%14 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)94%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness92%art unit 85%+7 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness56%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW95%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW89%+6 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 60 decided applications with an interview and 55 without.

ART UNIT 2156
15 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

80% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 69%
DISPOSITION12 / 3 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION15.6 moart unit avg 20.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY24.4 moart unit avg 40.1 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility23%art unit 55%32 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)92%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness62%art unit 84%22 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness38%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 15 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Michal Lawrence Bogacki

  • What is Michal Lawrence Bogacki's allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 91%, calculated as the percentage of his decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across all art units. This is a historical figure and is not a prediction of any specific application.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Bogacki's public record spans 2 art units (2156 and 2157) within Technology Center 2100. The pooled figures reported here aggregate his work across both units.
  • What is the size of this examiner's decided caseload?
    The record covers hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units. Specific application counts appear in the statistics boxes on this page.
  • Does the allowance rate include pending applications?
    No. The allowance rate is calculated only from decided applications (allowed and abandoned). Pending applications are excluded from this percentage.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Michal Lawrence Bogacki 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: 130 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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