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Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 682 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2019
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
92%vs 50% weighted peer average+42 pts

Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry has allowed 624 of 682 decided applications.

624 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (50%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2427 · 92%AU 2421 · 91%AU 2424 · 90%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry has an overall allowance rate of 91% across hundreds of decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, spanning 3 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across these art units the allowance rate ranges from 90% to 92%. These are pooled figures from the public USPTO record, not predictions about any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

This page pools Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry's record across 3 art units into one overall allowance rate — total allowed divided by total decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, with pending excluded. Aggregate figures describe the past public record and are not predictions about any specific application. This is general information about the data, not legal advice.

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.3 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 2427
371 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

92%
higher than 16 of the 17 examiners with published rates in art unit 2427
AU avg 41%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 17 examiners with published rates in art unit 2427; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition371 decided applications

342 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.6mo
disposed 28.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.6 mo, disposed 51 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 27
13%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
71%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
12%

Interview benefit

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

without
92%
+4 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 23 decided applications with an interview and 348 without.

ART UNIT 2421
207 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 93% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2421
AU avg 61%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2421; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 29 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 28 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition207 decided applications

188 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 33.1mo
disposed 57mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 40.3 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 23
14%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
47%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
63%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
5%

Interview benefit

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

without
90%
+7 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 31 decided applications with an interview and 176 without.

ART UNIT 2424
104 APPS · 90% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

90%
higher than about 82% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424
AU avg 63%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition104 decided applications

94 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 9.8mo
disposed 23.8mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.5 mo, disposed 42.1 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 27
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
55%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
71%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
14%

Interview benefit

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

without
87%
+10 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 36 decided applications with an interview and 68 without.

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Questions about Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry

  • What is Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry's overall allowance rate?
    91% across hundreds of decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications in public USPTO data, pooled over 3 art units.
  • How many art units does Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry examine in?
    3 art units within Technology Center 2400, based on the public record.
  • Does Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry's allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Across the examiner's substantial art units the allowance rate ranges from 90% to 92% in public USPTO data.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hunter B Lonsberry 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: 682 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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