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Examiner Robert A Cassity

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 305 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
74%vs 81% art-unit average7 pts

Examiner Robert A Cassity has allowed 226 of 305 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed226abandoned79pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Robert A Cassity maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate stands at 74%, meaning that 74% of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—were allowed. This rate reflects the examiner's historical record on applications that have reached a final disposition. The pool of decided applications provides the basis for this statistic; pending applications are excluded from the calculation.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art unit(s) within TC 2100. The 74% allowance rate describes past dispositions and is a historical aggregate, not a prediction about any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures smooth differences across individual art units and show the examiner's overall decision-making pattern. Any single application may follow a different path based on its specific claims, prior art, and prosecution conduct.

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 2115
305 APPS · 74% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems, and electric power networks.

74% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 81%
DISPOSITION226 / 79 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.4 moart unit avg 25.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY37.5 moart unit avg 36.3 mo
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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 eligibility22%art unit 33%11 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)83%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 83%+14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness58%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW88%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW64%+24 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 131 decided applications with an interview and 174 without.

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Questions about Examiner Robert A Cassity

  • What is Robert A Cassity's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 74% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100. This means 74% of applications that reached a final disposition (allowed or abandoned) were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • What does the 74% rate mean for my application?
    The 74% figure is a historical summary of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual prosecution depends on claim scope, prior art, amendments, and examiner response during prosecution.
  • Is this rate compared to other examiners?
    This profile reports only the examiner's own record. Comparisons to art-unit, technology-center, or examiner cohort averages appear in separate statistical sections on this site.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Robert A Cassity 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: 305 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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