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Examiner Gregory G Todd

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 455 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
40%vs 73% weighted peer average33 pts

Examiner Gregory G Todd has allowed 180 of 455 decided applications.

180 allowed
275 abandoned
Plus 61 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (73%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2457 · 33%AU 2443 · 53%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Gregory G Todd maintains a pooled allowance rate of 40% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate—the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that resulted in allowance—ranges from 33% to 53% across these art units. This public record reflects dispositions in applications that have been decided; pending applications are excluded from the calculation.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decided applications across multiple art units within TC 2400. The overall allowance rate of 40% describes the examiner's historical record and reflects past dispositions only. Aggregate figures do not predict the outcome of any specific application. Variation across art units is normal and reflects different subject matter and application characteristics within the technology center.

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 2457
310 APPS · 33% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

33%
higher than about 3% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2457
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2457; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 40 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition310 decided applications

103 allowed
207 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 26mo
disposed 57.2mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 39.3 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 39
54%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
83%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 73
82%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
85%

Interview benefit

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

without
30%
+4 pts
with
34%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 224 decided applications with an interview and 86 without.

ART UNIT 2443
206 APPS · 53% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

53%
higher than about 22% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition145 decided applications

77 allowed
68 abandoned
Plus 61 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.5mo
disposed 41.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.1 mo, disposed 40.7 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 37
34%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
88%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
83%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
85%

Interview benefit

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

without
46%
+12 pts
with
58%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 86 decided applications with an interview and 59 without.

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Questions about Examiner Gregory G Todd

  • What is Gregory G Todd's overall allowance rate?
    40% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    2 art units (2443 and 2457) within TC 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across his art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 33% to 53% across these art units.
  • Does this record predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This pooled record describes past decided applications only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Gregory G Todd 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: 516 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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