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Examiner Reginald Glenwood Bragdon

TECH CENTER 2100 · 5 ART UNITS · 224 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 5 ART UNITS
58%vs 69% weighted peer average11 pts

Examiner Reginald Glenwood Bragdon has allowed 129 of 224 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed129abandoned95pending2· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (69%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (5 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2139 · 52%AU 2189 · 23%AU 2188 · 95%AU 2185 · 81%AU 2186 · 100%
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What the data says.

Examiner Reginald Glenwood Bragdon has a pooled allowance rate of 58% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans 5 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate varies across these art units, ranging from 23% to 95%. This pooled figure represents the share of applications in which allowances were issued, measured among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), and does not include pending applications.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, producing an overall allowance rate that describes past outcomes rather than predicting any single application's disposition. The range shown reflects variation among the individual art units; the pooled figure is a combined measure and does not apply uniformly to every art unit. Pooled statistics are historical summaries and are not predictions about future applications.

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 →

// BY ART UNIT

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 2139
86 APPS · 52% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.

52% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 65%
DISPOSITION44 / 40 / 2allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.3 moart unit avg 24 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY29.9 moart unit avg 37.7 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 eligibility16%art unit 21%5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)78%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness84%art unit 80%+4 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness74%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW81%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW40%+41 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 26 decided applications with an interview and 58 without.

ART UNIT 2189
64 APPS · 23% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

23% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 77%
DISPOSITION15 / 49 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION27.8 moart unit avg 26.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY27.5 moart unit avg 39 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 eligibility0%art unit 45%45 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)75%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness75%art unit 72%+3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness50%no art-unit benchmark
ART UNIT 2188
57 APPS · 95% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

95% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION54 / 3 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.5 moart unit avg 26.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY30.6 moart unit avg 39.7 mo
ART UNIT 2185
16 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION13 / 3 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.6 moart unit avg 21.6 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.4 moart unit avg 36.3 mo
ART UNIT 2186
3 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

100% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION3 / 0 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION5.6 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY18.2 moart unit avg 35 mo
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Questions about Examiner Reginald Glenwood Bragdon

  • What is Examiner Bragdon's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 58% across hundreds of decided applications, pooled across all art units. This represents the share of applications in which allowances were issued among all decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Bragdon has a public record spanning 5 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • Do allowance rates vary across Examiner Bragdon's art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates range from 23% to 95% across the art units in which this examiner has a substantial record, reflecting variation in outcomes by subject matter and art-unit assignment.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Reginald Glenwood Bragdon 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: 226 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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