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Examiner Caleb James Ballowe

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 17 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
18%vs 58% weighted peer average40 pts

Examiner Caleb James Ballowe has allowed 3 of 17 decided applications.

3 allowed
14 abandoned
Plus 67 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (58%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2419 · 19%AU 2468 · 0%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Caleb James Ballowe maintains an allowance rate of 18% across a small number of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans two art units: 2419 and 2468. This pooled figure represents the share of applications he has allowed out of all his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) across both units. The allowance rate reflects historical outcomes on completed applications and does not indicate the disposition of any pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates Caleb James Ballowe's record across multiple art units within TC 2400. Pooled figures describe past outcomes across different subject areas within the technology center and represent an average of his historical record. Aggregate statistics do not forecast the outcome of any individual application, which may depend on claim scope, prior art, examiner assignment, and other case-specific factors. Pooled data is descriptive only.

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 2419
83 APPS · 19% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

19%
higher than about 9% 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.

Disposition16 decided applications

3 allowed
13 abandoned
Plus 67 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.9mo
disposed 31.2mo
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
32%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
99%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
78%
ART UNIT 2468
1 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

0%
higher than about 0% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2468
AU avg 61%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2468; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition1 decided applications

1 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.2mo
disposed 25.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.4 mo, disposed 41.5 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
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
0%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
100%

Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Caleb James Ballowe

  • What is Caleb James Ballowe's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 18%, representing the percentage of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units in his record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Caleb James Ballowe's public record spans 2 art units (2419 and 2468) within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. Pooled historical allowance rates describe past decided applications and are not predictions of any specific pending application. Individual outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and other case facts.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean in this record?
    Decided applications are those that have been allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from this statistic.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Caleb James Ballowe 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: 84 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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