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Examiner Amare F Tabor

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 996 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
86%vs 76% weighted peer average+10 pts

Examiner Amare F Tabor has allowed 859 of 996 decided applications.

859 allowed
Plus 32 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (76%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2434 · 87%AU 2439 · 56%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Amare F Tabor maintains a pooled record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 86%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The record spans multiple art units within the technology center, and the overall allowance rate reflects the examiner's combined output across those units.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates results from multiple art units within TC 2400. The 86% allowance rate describes historical outcomes across decided applications and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application. Aggregate statistics reflect past decisions across different art-unit categories and cannot be applied to forecast the outcome of a specific case. Pooled data masks variation across individual art units.

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 2434
1,012 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 68% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2434
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2434; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 41 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 38 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition980 decided applications

850 allowed
Plus 32 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21mo
disposed 33.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 41.8 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 39
26%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
70%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
88%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
22%

Interview benefit

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

without
79%
+17 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 454 decided applications with an interview and 526 without.

ART UNIT 2439
16 APPS · 56% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

56%
higher than about 21% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2439; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 35 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 34 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition16 decided applications

9 allowed
7 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.1mo
disposed 50.1mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.9 mo, disposed 44.5 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Amare F Tabor

  • What is Examiner Tabor's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate across all decided applications is 86%, representing the share of applications allowed among all decided cases (allowed and abandoned combined).
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record covers 2 art units within Technology Center 2400. Individual art-unit data is available separately.
  • How large is the sample of decided applications?
    The record spans hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units covered by this examiner.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. Historical allowance rates are correlational data and do not predict outcomes for specific applications. Aggregate figures mask variation across individual art units and do not account for the particulars of any single case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Amare F Tabor 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: 1,028 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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