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Examiner Angel T Brockman

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 868 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
85%vs 78% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Angel T Brockman has allowed 737 of 868 decided applications.

737 allowed
131 abandoned
Plus 53 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (78%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2463 · 83%AU 2412 · 98%AU 2416 · 46%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Angel T Brockman maintains an allowance rate of 85% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans three art units: 2412, 2416, and 2463. Allowance rates across these art units range from 83% to 98%, reflecting variation in the decided applications pool within this technology center. The 85% pooled figure represents the proportion of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) across the examiner's assigned art units. This aggregate record describes past dispositions and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates the examiner's performance across multiple art units within TC 2400. A pooled allowance rate describes the historical share of decided applications that issued, computed from allowed and abandoned cases only—pending applications are excluded from the calculation. The range from 83% to 98% reflects differences among the individual art units; the overall 85% figure is the combined result. Pooled data describe the past record and are not predictive of any single application's outcome.

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.3 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 2463
691 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

83%
higher than about 41% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2463
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2463; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition691 decided applications

571 allowed
120 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.7mo
disposed 31.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.2 mo, disposed 36.3 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 21
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
53%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
72%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
17%

Interview benefit

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

without
82%
+3 pts
with
85%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 121 decided applications with an interview and 570 without.

ART UNIT 2412
217 APPS · 98% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

98%
higher than about 90% of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2412
AU avg 89%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2412; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition164 decided applications

160 allowed
Plus 53 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.4mo
disposed 28.3mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.8 mo, disposed 31.5 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 21
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
46%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
72%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
11%

Interview benefit

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

without
97%
+3 pts
with
100%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 25 decided applications with an interview and 139 without.

ART UNIT 2416
13 APPS · 46% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

46%
higher than about 31% 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.

Disposition13 decided applications

6 allowed
7 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 35.4mo
disposed 44.7mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Angel T Brockman

  • What is Angel T Brockman's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 85%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications pooled from all assigned art units in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Angel T Brockman has a public record spanning three art units: 2412, 2416, and 2463, all within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 83% to 98%. This range reflects variation among the individual art units; the overall pooled rate is 85%.
  • Does this record predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This historical record describes the examiner's past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific pending application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Angel T Brockman 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: 921 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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