Examiner Clifford Hilaire has allowed 390 of 517 decided applications.
Clifford Hilaire maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. The examiner's pooled allowance rate stands at 75% across hundreds of decided applications. This rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's record. The allowance rate is a historical measure of the examiner's examination outcomes and does not predict results on any individual application.
This pooled record aggregates examination outcomes across the examiner's art units. The allowance rate describes past decisions on applications that reached a final determination. Pooled figures represent a historical average and are not predictions about specific applications. Individual art units may show different patterns; those details appear separately on this page. Any single application's outcome depends on its particular facts, claims, and prior art.
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 →
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.
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.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 226 decided applications with an interview and 291 without.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Clifford Hilaire 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: 575 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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