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Examiner Djenane M Bayard

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 829 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
85%vs 64% weighted peer average+21 pts

Examiner Djenane M Bayard has allowed 702 of 829 decided applications.

702 allowed
127 abandoned
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2444 · 85%AU 2441 · 57%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Djenane M Bayard maintains a pooled allowance rate of 85% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications—those marked allowed or abandoned—across the examiner's entire portfolio. This aggregate figure represents the examiner's historical record and does not constitute a prediction of outcome for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, presenting an overall snapshot of the examiner's decided applications. The allowance rate shown is a historical measure—the percentage of past decided applications that resulted in allowance. This aggregate does not predict the outcome of any individual application, nor does it account for differences in examination complexity, applicant arguments, or claim scope that may vary between cases. The figure describes past record 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 2444
862 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 71% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2444
AU avg 64%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2444; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition815 decided applications

694 allowed
121 abandoned
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.9mo
disposed 36.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.6 mo, disposed 43.7 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 41
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
80%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 80
74%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
25%

Interview benefit

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

without
85%
+1 pt
with
86%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 288 decided applications with an interview and 527 without.

ART UNIT 2441
14 APPS · 57% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

57%
higher than about 19% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2441
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2441; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition14 decided applications

8 allowed
6 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 32.1mo
disposed 71.9mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 40.1 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Djenane M Bayard

  • What is Examiner Bayard's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 85%, representing the share of allowed applications among all decided applications across the examiner's entire record in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record across hundreds of past decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific pending application's outcome.
  • What technology areas does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2400. Specific subject matter and per-art-unit details appear in separate sections of this profile.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Djenane M Bayard 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: 876 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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