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Examiner Bradford F Fritz

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 77 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2012
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
29%vs 53% weighted peer average24 pts

Examiner Bradford F Fritz has allowed 22 of 77 decided applications.

22 allowed
55 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (53%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2442 · 31%AU 2441 · 10%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Bradford F. Fritz maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across dozens of decided applications, the pooled allowance rate is 29%. This rate represents the share of applications that issued as allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) in the examiner's record. The pooled figure aggregates outcomes from both art units and does not break down by individual unit. This historical record is descriptive of past outcomes only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates results across multiple art units, masking unit-specific variation. The overall allowance rate reflects the examiner's combined outcomes across all units represented in the data. Pooled figures describe past record only and are not predictions about any particular application or art unit. To understand outcomes within a specific art unit, consult the unit-level detail section. Aggregate statistics provide context for the examiner's historical decision patterns but do not forecast individual application results.

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 2442
67 APPS · 31% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

31%
higher than about 25% of the 40 examiners with published rates in art unit 2442
AU avg 50%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 40 examiners with published rates in art unit 2442; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition67 decided applications

21 allowed
46 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 36.1mo
disposed 67.5mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.1 mo, disposed 43.6 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 39
54%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
85%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
62%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
77%

Interview benefit

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

without
17%
+39 pts
with
56%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 25 decided applications with an interview and 42 without.

ART UNIT 2441
10 APPS · 10% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

10%
higher than about 3% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2441
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2441; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition10 decided applications

9 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 41.9mo
disposed 74.3mo
0
84mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 40.1 mo.
// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Bradford F Fritz

  • What is Bradford F. Fritz's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 29%, measured across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This represents the percentage of applications that issued as allowed among all applications with a final decision (allowed or abandoned).
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The record spans 2 art units: 2441 and 2442. The figures presented here are pooled across both units and do not isolate outcomes by individual unit.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled rate is a historical summary of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application. Individual outcomes vary based on the application's merits, art unit assignment, and examination factors.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those with a final outcome—either allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance rate calculation, which measures only applications with closed dispositions.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Bradford F Fritz 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: 77 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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