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Examiner Anthony D Brown

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 676 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
82%vs 64% art-unit average+18 pts
higher than about 68% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2433
AU avg 64%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2433; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Anthony D Brown has allowed 557 of 676 decided applications.

557 allowed
119 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Anthony D Brown maintains an 82% allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His public record spans one art unit. The allowance rate reflects the share of his decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending filings. This figure represents his pooled record across all art units in which he has issued decisions. The allowance rate is a historical measure of past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates decisions across multiple art units, if applicable, to show an examiner's overall historical allowance rate. This aggregate figure describes past dispositions and does not forecast the result of any individual application. Different art units within TC 2400 may have different allowance rates; this pooled number is the combined rate across all of the examiner's assigned units. Review the detailed per-art-unit breakdown for subject-matter-specific context.

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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 2433
676 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

82%
higher than about 68% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2433
AU avg 64%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2433; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition676 decided applications

557 allowed
119 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.1mo
disposed 35.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.2 mo, disposed 41.6 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 41
44%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
73%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
75%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
25%

Interview benefit

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

without
76%
+16 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 276 decided applications with an interview and 400 without.

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Questions about Examiner Anthony D Brown

  • What is Anthony D Brown's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 82%, computed as a percentage of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined, excluding pending filings) across all art units in his record.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Anthony D Brown's public record covers one art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of decided applications that were allowed, out of all applications on which a decision was issued (allowed or abandoned). It is a historical statistic and not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • Is this rate based on many applications?
    Yes, the allowance rate is pooled across hundreds of decided applications in the examiner's record.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Anthony D Brown 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: 676 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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