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Examiner Wayne P Amsbury

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 128 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2006
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
94%vs 59% weighted peer average+35 pts

Examiner Wayne P Amsbury has allowed 120 of 128 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed120abandoned8pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (59%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2161 · 93%AU 2171 · 94%
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What the data says.

Wayne P Amsbury maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, his allowance rate is 94%. The allowance rate ranges from 93% to 94% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of applications in his record that were allowed, out of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The record spans multiple art units within the same technology center.

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A pooled record aggregates allowance statistics across all art units where an examiner has a substantial history. The overall allowance rate describes past outcomes across that full portfolio and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual art units may show variation; the range reflects that difference. Pooled figures are useful for understanding an examiner's overall profile but do not indicate how any single application will be examined.

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 2161
74 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

93% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION69 / 5 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION29.1 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44.8 moart unit avg 39 mo
ART UNIT 2171
54 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE
94% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 56%
DISPOSITION51 / 3 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.3 moart unit avg 22 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY35.4 moart unit avg 37.2 mo
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Questions about Examiner Wayne P Amsbury

  • What is Wayne P Amsbury's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 94%, representing the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The record spans 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Do allowance rates vary across his art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 93% to 94% across the art units in which he has a substantial record.
  • What does this pooled figure represent?
    It aggregates the outcomes of hundreds of decided applications across all his art units. It describes past record and is not a prediction of any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Wayne P Amsbury 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: 128 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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