Examiner William C Trapanese has allowed 330 of 469 decided applications (70%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
William C Trapanese maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 469 disposed applications, 330 were allowed and 139 abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 70%. This record spans a single art unit (2171). The allowance rate is computed over decided applications only and does not include any pending matters. This pooled figure represents the examiner's aggregate outcome across all art units in the technology center.
A pooled record aggregates outcomes across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate (70% here) reflects the proportion of decided applications that were allowed, calculated only from the disposed count (469), not from total filings. This aggregate figure describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's fate. Individual art-unit records, when available separately, may show variation.
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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 183 decided applications with an interview and 286 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner William C Trapanese 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: 469 applications.
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