Examiner Wendy K Nicholas has allowed 78 of 170 decided applications (46%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Wendy K Nicholas maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across her single art unit, 170 applications have been disposed. Of those decided applications, 78 were allowed and 92 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 46%. This pooled record aggregates all decisions within her assigned art unit and represents the examiner's historical disposition pattern over the applications reviewed.
This pooled record combines all art units under this examiner's purview into a single aggregate allowance rate and application count. The 46% allowance rate describes past dispositions across 170 decided applications and is a historical summary—not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Aggregate figures mask variation within individual art units; per-art-unit details appear in separate sections of this profile.
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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.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 114 decided applications with an interview and 56 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Wendy K Nicholas 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: 170 applications.
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