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Examiner Frederick D Bailey

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 547 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JAN 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
67%vs 57% art-unit average+10 pts
higher than about 59% of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2483
AU avg 57%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2483; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 30 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 29 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Frederick D Bailey has allowed 367 of 547 decided applications.

367 allowed
180 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Frederick D Bailey maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across 1 art unit. His pooled allowance rate stands at 67% across hundreds of decided applications. This rate represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in his record. The 67% allowance rate reflects outcomes in closed applications over the period covered by this public record. Art-unit assignment and case-by-case variations are captured in the detailed breakdowns; this figure aggregates those outcomes into a single pooled measure.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units into one overall statistic. The 67% allowance rate describes past decided applications and reflects historical outcomes, not a prediction of any specific application's disposition. Because different art units may have different technology focuses and examination complexities, aggregate figures smooth over those variations. Pooled data provides a high-level view; detailed per-art-unit records appear separately.

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 2483
547 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

67%
higher than about 59% of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2483
AU avg 57%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2483; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 30 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 29 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition547 decided applications

367 allowed
180 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.4mo
disposed 40.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.9 mo, disposed 42.2 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 22
29%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
56%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
95%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
39%

Interview benefit

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

without
62%
+17 pts
with
79%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 175 decided applications with an interview and 372 without.

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Questions about Examiner Frederick D Bailey

  • What is Frederick D Bailey's allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 67%, calculated as allowed applications divided by all decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across his record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans 1 art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled rate describes past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's disposition. Outcomes vary based on claim scope, prior art, specification, and examination details.
  • What does 'hundreds of decided applications' mean?
    It indicates the magnitude of the applicant pool—the decided applications (allowed and abandoned) on which the 67% rate is based. The exact count appears in the accompanying statistics.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Frederick D Bailey 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: 547 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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