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Examiner Henry Baron

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 715 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAY 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
77%vs 75% weighted peer average+2 pts

Examiner Henry Baron has allowed 547 of 715 decided applications.

547 allowed
168 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2462 · 80%AU 2416 · 35%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Henry Baron maintains a 77% allowance rate across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate reflects the share of applications in his pooled record that were allowed rather than abandoned. Across his art units, allowance rates range from 35% to 80%. This range indicates variation in outcomes across different art-unit assignments within the same technology center. The figures represent his historical record and do not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units within a single technology center. The overall 77% allowance rate is a historical summary combining different art-unit records. Because the rate spans 2 art units with varying individual outcomes (35% to 80%), the aggregate figure describes past performance across the examiner's assigned subject matter. Pooled rates are not predictive of any particular application's outcome.

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 2462
658 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 41% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2462
AU avg 77%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2462; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition658 decided applications

527 allowed
131 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.5mo
disposed 41.6mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.1 mo, disposed 38.3 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 24
31%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
32%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
93%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
32%

Interview benefit

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

without
78%
+12 pts
with
90%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 127 decided applications with an interview and 531 without.

ART UNIT 2416
57 APPS · 35% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

35%
higher than about 22% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition57 decided applications

20 allowed
37 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.9mo
disposed 54.7mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.

Interview benefit

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

without
41%
22 pts
with
19%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 16 decided applications with an interview and 41 without.

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Questions about Examiner Henry Baron

  • What is Henry Baron's overall allowance rate?
    77% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Do allowance rates vary across his art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates across his art units range from 35% to 80%, indicating variation in outcomes by art-unit assignment.
  • What does this pooled rate tell me about my application?
    The pooled 77% rate is historical aggregate data 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 Henry Baron 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: 715 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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