Examiner Virgil A Herring has allowed 44 of 63 decided applications (70%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Virgil A Herring's public record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 63 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 44 and abandoned 19. The allowance rate is 70 percent. This figure is pooled across all art units and represents the share of decided applications resulting in allowance. The record covers completed dispositions only and does not include pending applications.
A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units (or a single art unit) into one overall statistic. The allowance rate and disposition counts reflect historical outcomes on applications already decided. These figures describe the past record and do not constitute a prediction about the outcome of any specific application or a forecast of how any particular case will be examined.
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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.
Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 17 decided applications with an interview and 46 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Virgil A Herring 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 June 25, 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: 63 applications.
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