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Examiner Glenford J Madamba

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 818 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
83%vs 65% art-unit average+18 pts
higher than about 71% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Glenford J Madamba has allowed 675 of 818 decided applications.

675 allowed
143 abandoned
Plus 28 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Glenford J Madamba has a pooled allowance rate of 83% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His public record spans a single art unit (2451). The allowance rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided applications in his pooled record, excluding pending cases. This figure describes his past examination activity and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate shown here is a historical aggregate and represents past dispositions, not a forecast for individual cases. Applications vary in complexity, prior art, and claim scope. Pooled statistics describe the examiner's overall record but do not predict the outcome of any particular application or indicate how any future case will be examined.

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 2451
846 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

83%
higher than about 71% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition818 decided applications

675 allowed
143 abandoned
Plus 28 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.3mo
disposed 37.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 43.5 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 43
38%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
63%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
88%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
31%

Interview benefit

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

without
74%
+20 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 356 decided applications with an interview and 462 without.

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Questions about Examiner Glenford J Madamba

  • What is Glenford J Madamba's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 83%, measured across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned cases, pending excluded).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    His public record spans 1 art unit (2451) within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled rate is a historical aggregate of past decided cases and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What is the technology center for this examiner?
    Glenford J Madamba works in Technology Center 2400.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Glenford J Madamba 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: 846 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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