Examiner Samuel G Rimell has allowed 49 of 95 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Samuel G Rimell maintains a pooled allowance rate of 52% across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans 3 art units. The allowance rate—the percentage of decided applications that were allowed—reflects outcomes across all art units combined. Allowance rates vary among the individual art units in his portfolio, ranging from 36% to 63%. This range reflects the diversity of subject matter and application characteristics across the different art units in TC 2100 where the examiner works. The pooled figure aggregates these varied outcomes into a single overall measure.
This pooled record combines data across multiple art units into one summary figure. The 52% allowance rate describes past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome for any particular application. Allowance rates vary by art unit; the range shown reflects this variation. A pooled figure masks individual art-unit performance and describes the examiner's aggregate record only. For art-unit-specific data, consult the separate per-art-unit section of this page.
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 →
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.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 28 decided applications with an interview and 35 without.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Samuel G Rimell 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: 95 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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