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Examiner Brandon M Renner

TECH CENTER 2400 · 5 ART UNITS · 1,027 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 5 ART UNITS
83%vs 69% weighted peer average+14 pts

Examiner Brandon M Renner has allowed 852 of 1,027 decided applications.

852 allowed
175 abandoned
Plus 76 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (69%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (5 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2478 · 81%AU 2411 · 94%AU 2419 · 89%AU 2461 · 71%AU 2416 · 46%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Brandon M Renner has an overall allowance rate of 83% across more than a thousand decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, spanning 5 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across these art units the allowance rate ranges from 71% to 94%. These are pooled figures from the public USPTO record, not predictions about any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

This page pools Examiner Brandon M Renner's record across 5 art units into one overall allowance rate — total allowed divided by total decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, with pending excluded. Aggregate figures describe the past public record and are not predictions about any specific application. This is general information about the data, not legal advice.

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.5 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 2478
444 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 63% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition444 decided applications

361 allowed
83 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.9mo
disposed 40.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.7 mo, disposed 42.7 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 25
22%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
59%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
83%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
52%

Interview benefit

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

without
74%
+21 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 164 decided applications with an interview and 280 without.

ART UNIT 2411
260 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

94%
higher than about 88% of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2411
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2411; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition184 decided applications

173 allowed
Plus 76 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.4mo
disposed 34.3mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21 mo, disposed 38.4 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 26
12%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
79%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
94%
±0 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 67 decided applications with an interview and 117 without.

ART UNIT 2419
211 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

89%
higher than about 88% of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition211 decided applications

187 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.1mo
disposed 28.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 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 24
18%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
82%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
35%

Interview benefit

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

without
85%
+9 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 93 decided applications with an interview and 118 without.

ART UNIT 2461
175 APPS · 71% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

71%
higher than about 37% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2461
AU avg 67%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2461; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 29 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 27 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition175 decided applications

125 allowed
50 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.4mo
disposed 44.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.2 mo, disposed 37.6 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 20
30%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
39%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
74%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
72%

Interview benefit

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

without
59%
+36 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 60 decided applications with an interview and 115 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 35.8mo
disposed 48.4mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Brandon M Renner

  • What is Examiner Brandon M Renner's overall allowance rate?
    83% across more than a thousand decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications in public USPTO data, pooled over 5 art units.
  • How many art units does Examiner Brandon M Renner examine in?
    5 art units within Technology Center 2400, based on the public record.
  • Does Examiner Brandon M Renner's allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Across the examiner's substantial art units the allowance rate ranges from 71% to 94% in public USPTO data.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Brandon M Renner 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: 1,103 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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