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Examiner Carmine Malangone

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 165 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION SEP 2016
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
52%vs 52% art-unit average±0 pts
higher than about 32% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423
AU avg 52%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Carmine Malangone has allowed 85 of 165 decided applications.

85 allowed
80 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Carmine Malangone maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 52%. This figure represents the share of applications that issued as allowed (rather than abandoned) among all decided cases in the pooled record. The allowance rate does not include pending applications and reflects only finalized dispositions. The record aggregates outcomes across the examiner's assigned art unit.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record combines all art units under the examiner's jurisdiction into a single set of statistics. The allowance rate and application volume describe what occurred in past decided cases and do not constitute a prediction about any specific application. Pooled figures mask variation that may exist within individual art units; detailed breakdowns by art unit appear elsewhere on this page. Aggregate statistics characterize the historical record only.

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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 2423
165 APPS · 52% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

52%
higher than about 32% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423
AU avg 52%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition165 decided applications

85 allowed
80 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 28mo
disposed 51.5mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.1 mo, disposed 39.5 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 34
36%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
57%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 91
95%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
61%

Interview benefit

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

without
34%
+41 pts
with
75%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 71 decided applications with an interview and 94 without.

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Questions about Examiner Carmine Malangone

  • What is Carmine Malangone's overall allowance rate?
    52% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the percentage of cases that resulted in allowance (not abandonment) among all applications with final dispositions.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    One art unit. The pooled record shown here aggregates all applications across that single unit.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. Pooled historical rates describe past decisions, not any future case. Individual applications depend on claim scope, prior art, arguments, and other application-specific facts.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    Technology Center 2400. Detailed art-unit assignments and specific technology areas are available in the art-unit detail section of this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Carmine Malangone 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: 165 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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