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Examiner Tracey M Mcghee

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 210 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION SEP 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
50%vs 58% art-unit average8 pts

Examiner Tracey M Mcghee has allowed 105 of 210 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed105abandoned105pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Tracey M Mcghee maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), covering one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 50%, meaning that half of all decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—resulted in allowance. This rate reflects the examiner's pooled record across all art units in the technology center and serves as a snapshot of past decisions on applications in this subject area.

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This profile aggregates the examiner's decisions across all art units within TC 2100. The pooled allowance rate of 50% describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Aggregate figures mask variation by art unit and application type. Individual art-unit records, where available separately, may differ from the pooled rate. These statistics are correlational—they describe what has occurred, not what will occur in any particular case.

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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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 2154
210 APPS · 50% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

50% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION105 / 105 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.9 moart unit avg 27.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY53.2 moart unit avg 41.9 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 eligibility67%art unit 55%+12 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness89%art unit 87%+2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness43%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW69%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW36%+33 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 88 decided applications with an interview and 122 without.

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Questions about Examiner Tracey M Mcghee

  • What is Tracey M Mcghee's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 50% across hundreds of decided applications, pooled across all art units in TC 2100. This represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Tracey M Mcghee's public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does a pooled allowance rate mean?
    A pooled rate aggregates decisions across all of the examiner's art units. It describes the examiner's past record and is not a prediction for any specific application. Individual art units may have different rates.
  • How large is the dataset behind this record?
    The allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications across all art units in TC 2100.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Tracey M Mcghee 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: 210 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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