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Examiner Jason A Harley

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 679 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
68%vs 61% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Jason A Harley has allowed 464 of 679 decided applications.

464 allowed
215 abandoned
Plus 61 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (61%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2468 · 69%AU 2449 · 0%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Jason A Harley maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, his allowance rate is 68%. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed, among all applications that were decided (allowed or abandoned), pooled across both art units. The allowance rate reflects the examiner's historical record and does not predict the outcome of any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This record is pooled across multiple art units, meaning it aggregates the examiner's work in different subject areas. Pooled allowance rates describe past decisions across a combined set of applications and are correlational snapshots, not predictive tools for any specific case. Individual art-unit breakdowns, where available separately, may show variation. Pooled figures provide a general overview of the examiner's historical record only.

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 2468
738 APPS · 69% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

69%
higher than about 40% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2468
AU avg 61%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2468; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition677 decided applications

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

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.6mo
disposed 48.5mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.4 mo, disposed 41.5 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 21
28%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
60%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
38%

Interview benefit

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

without
55%
+28 pts
with
83%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 327 decided applications with an interview and 350 without.

ART UNIT 2449
2 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

0%
higher than about 0% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449
AU avg 55%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2449; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition2 decided applications

2 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 33.7mo
disposed 41.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.9 mo, disposed 40.3 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Jason A Harley

  • What is Jason A Harley's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 68%, representing the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units in his record.
  • How many art units does he work in?
    The public record covers 2 art units: 2449 and 2468, both within Technology Center 2400.
  • How large is the sample size for this record?
    The pooled allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications across both art units.
  • Does the pooled rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. This pooled figure is a historical summary and is not a prediction of any specific application's disposition.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jason A Harley 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: 740 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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