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Examiner Ross Michael Vincent

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 26 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
62%vs 73% art-unit average11 pts

Examiner Ross Michael Vincent has allowed 16 of 26 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed16abandoned10pending40· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Ross Michael Vincent holds a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning 1 art unit. Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 62%, meaning that of all applications decided—those allowed or abandoned—62% were allowed. This rate describes the historical pooled record and does not indicate the outcome of any particular application. The examiner's decided-application set is large enough to provide a stable baseline for statistical reference.

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This profile presents a pooled record aggregating all art units under the examiner's assignment. The allowance rate reflects past decisions across multiple art units and represents a historical average, not a forecast. Pooled figures mask variation within individual art units; detailed per-unit records appear separately on this page. A pooled rate is descriptive of the examiner's overall record and is not predictive of any single application's outcome.

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◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2196
66 APPS · 62% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

62% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 73%
DISPOSITION16 / 10 / 40allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION30.2 moart unit avg 27.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY41.5 moart unit avg 41.8 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 eligibility54%art unit 46%+8 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)44%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 86%+11 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness44%no art-unit benchmark
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Questions about Examiner Ross Michael Vincent

  • What is Ross Michael Vincent's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 62% of decided applications across the pooled record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit in TC 2100.
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of applications that were allowed, calculated from all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned). Pending applications are excluded. This is a historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application.
  • What technology does this examiner review?
    The examiner works in TC 2100, which covers Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ross Michael Vincent 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: 66 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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