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Examiner Alexander L Boyd

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 324 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
76%vs 63% art-unit average+13 pts
higher than about 61% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424
AU avg 63%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Alexander L Boyd has allowed 245 of 324 decided applications.

245 allowed
79 abandoned
Plus 46 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Alexander L Boyd maintains a pooled allowance rate of 76% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This rate represents the share of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that resulted in allowance, excluding pending matters. His public record spans a single art unit. The 76% figure describes his historical record across all decided cases in this technology center and does not predict outcomes in any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all of Boyd's decided applications across his art units in TC 2400. The allowance rate describes past dispositions and reflects the examiner's historical record as a whole. Aggregate statistics do not forecast the result of any particular application. Individual cases vary based on claim scope, prior art, amendments, and other case-specific factors. This data provides context on the examiner's overall pattern but is not predictive.

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.1 art unit

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 2424
370 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 61% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424
AU avg 63%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition324 decided applications

245 allowed
79 abandoned
Plus 46 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 13.4mo
disposed 29.3mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.5 mo, disposed 42.1 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 27
34%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
95%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
95%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
71%

Interview benefit

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

without
66%
+22 pts
with
88%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 143 decided applications with an interview and 181 without.

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Questions about Examiner Alexander L Boyd

  • What is Alexander L Boyd's allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 76% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the percentage of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The pooled record covers 1 art unit. This statistic aggregates all decided applications across that unit.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled rate describes historical dispositions, not any individual case. Outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, amendments, and other case-specific factors.
  • What technology areas does this examiner cover?
    The record shown is for Technology Center 2400. For specific art-unit assignments and subject matter, see the separate per-art-unit section of this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alexander L Boyd 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: 370 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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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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