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Examiner Blake I Narramore

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 196 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
80%vs 75% weighted peer average+5 pts

Examiner Blake I Narramore has allowed 157 of 196 decided applications.

157 allowed
39 abandoned
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2438 · 80%AU 2431 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Blake I Narramore maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. The pooled allowance rate is 80%, measured across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications in the examiner's record that were allowed, out of all applications that reached a final decision (allowed or abandoned). The record aggregates outcomes from multiple art units and does not forecast results in any specific case.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines statistics from multiple art units into a single aggregate figure. The 80% allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record across those units and reflects past outcomes only. This aggregate does not predict the result of any individual application. Different art units within the technology center may have different subject matter and prosecution patterns; the pooled figure masks that variation.

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 2438
236 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 54% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition195 decided applications

156 allowed
39 abandoned
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.2mo
disposed 33.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.7 mo, disposed 38.3 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 52
30%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
91%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
91%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
55%

Interview benefit

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

without
69%
+23 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 92 decided applications with an interview and 103 without.

ART UNIT 2431
1 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 72% of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 46 examiners with published rates in art unit 2431; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 52 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 46 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition1 decided applications

1 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 3mo
disposed 6.8mo
0
12mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 35.1 mo.
// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Blake I Narramore

  • What is Blake I Narramore's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 80% across hundreds of decided applications. This is the share of applications that were allowed out of all applications that reached a final decision.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The 80% figure describes historical record only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual results vary based on the merits of each case.
  • Why do you pool data from multiple art units?
    Pooling aggregates the examiner's overall record across all their assigned art units. Different art units may have different subject matter; the aggregate figure masks that variation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Blake I Narramore 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: 237 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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