Examiner William E Baughman has allowed 263 of 304 decided applications (87%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
William E Baughman has a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning 2 art units. Across 304 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 263, yielding an allowance rate of 87%. Forty-one applications were abandoned. The allowance rate across the examiner's art units ranges from 86% to 87%, reflecting variation in the pooled record. These figures describe the examiner's historical disposition of decided cases and do not indicate outcomes in any pending or future application.
This record aggregates decisions across multiple art units in TC 2100 and represents the examiner's pooled allowance rate over a closed set of disposed cases. The 87% figure is a historical summary, not a prediction about any specific application. Pooled rates mask variation among individual art units; applicants reviewing a particular art unit may find different historical patterns. These statistics are descriptive of past record only.
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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 112 decided applications with an interview and 170 without.
Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.
Based on 22 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner William E Baughman 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: 304 applications.
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