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Examiner Timothy A Mudrick

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 798 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
88%vs 72% weighted peer average+16 pts

Examiner Timothy A Mudrick has allowed 700 of 798 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed700abandoned98pending48· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (72%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2194 · 85%AU 2198 · 98%
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What the data says.

Timothy A Mudrick maintains a public record across 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 88%, measured as the share of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided applications. The allowance rate ranges from 85% to 98% across these art units, reflecting variation in the record by subject matter within the technology center.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's performance across multiple art units in TC 2100. The 88% allowance rate describes historical outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's fate. Allowance rates vary by art unit; the pooled figure obscures that variation. Any single application's outcome depends on its claims, prior art, and examination details, not on aggregate statistics.

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 2194
649 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

85% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 69%
DISPOSITION554 / 95 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.3 moart unit avg 28 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32.2 moart unit avg 43.9 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 eligibility24%art unit 49%25 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)77%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness66%art unit 79%13 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness23%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW91%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW83%+8 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 197 decided applications with an interview and 452 without.

ART UNIT 2198
197 APPS · 98% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

98% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 83%
DISPOSITION146 / 3 / 48allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION26.4 moart unit avg 25.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.9 moart unit avg 39.7 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 eligibility25%art unit 51%26 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)68%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness79%art unit 87%8 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness29%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW100%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW97%+3 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 51 decided applications with an interview and 98 without.

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Questions about Examiner Timothy A Mudrick

  • What is Timothy A Mudrick's overall allowance rate?
    88%, measured as the percentage of his decided applications (allowed or abandoned) across all art units in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    2 art units (2194 and 2198) within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. Across the art units with substantial records, allowance rates range from 85% to 98%. The pooled 88% figure masks this variation.
  • Is the 88% rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This pooled rate describes past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Timothy A Mudrick 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: 846 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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