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Examiner Jeremy M Costin

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 311 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION SEP 2018
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
59%vs 74% weighted peer average15 pts

Examiner Jeremy M Costin has allowed 182 of 311 decided applications.

182 allowed
129 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2413 · 65%AU 2465 · 42%AU 2419 · 33%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Jeremy M Costin maintains a pooled allowance rate of 59% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans three art units (2413, 2419, 2465). The allowance rate ranges from 42% to 65% across these art units, reflecting variation in the composition and outcomes of applications examined within each unit. This pooled figure represents applications that have been decided—either allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units within TC 2400. The 59% allowance rate describes past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. When an examiner works across multiple art units, the overall rate may mask variation between units. The range (42% to 65%) illustrates that allowance rates differ by art unit; individual applications may fall within or outside this spread depending on their assigned unit and other case-specific factors.

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 2413
227 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

65%
higher than about 28% of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2413
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2413; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 30 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 29 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition227 decided applications

147 allowed
80 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.4mo
disposed 49.2mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 20 mo, disposed 36.3 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
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
64%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
91%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
83%

Interview benefit

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

without
42%
+44 pts
with
86%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 118 decided applications with an interview and 109 without.

ART UNIT 2465
81 APPS · 42% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

42%
higher than about 8% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition81 decided applications

34 allowed
47 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 28.9mo
disposed 43mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 38.1 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 21
43%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
57%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
90%

Interview benefit

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

without
20%
+65 pts
with
85%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 27 decided applications with an interview and 54 without.

ART UNIT 2419
3 APPS · 33% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

33%
higher than about 14% of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition3 decided applications

1 allowed
2 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 30.2mo
disposed 37.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Jeremy M Costin

  • What is Jeremy M Costin's overall allowance rate?
    59% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This represents applications allowed or abandoned; pending applications are excluded.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Three art units (2413, 2419, 2465) within TC 2400. The pooled 59% figure aggregates outcomes across all three.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across art units?
    Allowance rates range from 42% to 65% across the examiner's art units. This variation reflects differences in application composition and outcomes by unit.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jeremy M Costin 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: 311 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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