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Examiner Deirdre L Beasley

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 220 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
61%vs 66% art-unit average5 pts
higher than about 29% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 45 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Deirdre L Beasley has allowed 135 of 220 decided applications.

135 allowed
85 abandoned
Plus 21 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Deirdre L Beasley maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400, art unit 2482. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 61%. This rate reflects the share of applications in the examiner's pooled record that were allowed, out of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The allowance rate is calculated from the examiner's complete decided caseload and represents the historical distribution of outcomes in closed applications.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art units. The overall allowance rate (61%) describes the examiner's past record and is correlational data only—it is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Pooled figures mask variation across different art units and technology areas. The aggregate rate reflects historical outcomes but cannot be applied to forecast results in an individual case.

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.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 2482
241 APPS · 61% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

61%
higher than about 29% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 45 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition220 decided applications

135 allowed
85 abandoned
Plus 21 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.2mo
disposed 42mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 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 13
27%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
92%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
25%

Interview benefit

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

without
56%
+19 pts
with
75%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 57 decided applications with an interview and 163 without.

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Questions about Examiner Deirdre L Beasley

  • What is Deirdre L Beasley's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 61% across hundreds of decided applications pooled from all art units in the public record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 1 art unit (art unit 2482) in Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the 61% allowance rate mean?
    The rate represents the percentage of the examiner's decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) that were allowed. It describes past outcomes and is not predictive of any individual application's disposition.
  • Is this allowance rate typical?
    The data provided shows only this examiner's record. Comparison to art-unit or technology-center averages appears in separate sections of this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Deirdre L Beasley 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: 241 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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