Examiner Philip A Guyton has allowed 857 of 1,024 decided applications (84%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Philip A Guyton maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 1,060 total applications, 1,024 have been disposed. Of those decided applications, 857 were allowed and 167 abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 84%. The examiner's record spans a single art unit, Art Unit 2113. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's decisions across that unit and describes past outcomes only, without predicting results on any specific pending application.
This record is pooled across all art units under the examiner's name. When an examiner works in multiple art units, aggregate figures blend different subject matters and application types. The allowance rate presented here (84% of 1,024 decided applications) reflects the combined history and is a historical statistic, not a forecast. Individual art-unit records, where available separately, may differ from the pooled total.
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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.
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 249 decided applications with an interview and 775 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Philip A Guyton 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: 1,060 applications.
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