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Examiner Adam K Duda

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 353 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2018
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
82%vs 79% weighted peer average+3 pts

Examiner Adam K Duda has allowed 291 of 353 decided applications.

291 allowed
62 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (79%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2473 · 86%AU 2416 · 41%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Adam K Duda maintains a pooled allowance rate of 82% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications that issued or were abandoned, excluding pending cases—reflects his overall disposition across these units. Allowance rates across his art units range from 41% to 86%, indicating variation in outcomes by subject matter within the technology center. This pooled figure aggregates that variation and describes his historical record without predicting outcomes in any individual case.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines results across multiple art units into a single aggregate allowance rate. This figure describes past outcomes in the aggregate and is not a prediction for any specific application. Variation across art units—reflected in the range shown—reflects differences in application complexity, statutory requirements, and subject matter within TC 2400. The pooled rate is a historical snapshot and does not forecast results in any pending or future case.

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 →

The record, art unit by art unit.2 art units

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 2473
326 APPS · 86% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

86%
higher than about 67% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition326 decided applications

280 allowed
46 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.6mo
disposed 41mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 36.4 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

REJECTION RATE = SHARE OF THIS EXAMINER'S APPLICATIONS THAT DREW ≥1 OFFICE-ACTION REJECTION IN WHICH THE GROUND APPEARS

Grounds can co-occur, so the four don't sum to 100%. The art-unit figure is the unweighted mean across examiners in the art unit; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
AU 25
52%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
53%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
52%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
63%

Interview benefit

Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

without
81%
+16 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 101 decided applications with an interview and 225 without.

ART UNIT 2416
27 APPS · 41% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

41%
higher than about 26% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition27 decided applications

11 allowed
16 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 35.5mo
disposed 46.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Adam K Duda

  • What is Adam K Duda's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 82%, meaning that of his decided applications (allowed plus abandoned, excluding pending), 82% issued or were abandoned.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. Allowance rates across his art units range from 41% to 86%, reflecting differences in application outcomes within the technology center.
  • What does the pooled rate predict about my application?
    The pooled rate is historical data and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Adam K Duda has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 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: 353 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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