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Examiner Justin B Sanders

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 308 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
69%vs 72% art-unit average3 pts
higher than about 23% of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422
AU avg 72%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Justin B Sanders has allowed 211 of 308 decided applications.

211 allowed
97 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Justin B Sanders maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 69%, meaning that of all applications decided (allowed and abandoned), 69% resulted in allowance. This figure describes the examiner's historical record and applies uniformly across the art units in this technology center. The allowance rate is a pooled aggregate and does not predict outcomes in any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates applications across all art units where the examiner works. The allowance rate shown represents historical outcomes across those units combined and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application. Pooled figures describe past decisions in aggregate; individual applications may vary based on claim scope, prior art, and examiner interview history. Review of individual art-unit records provides additional detail on the examiner's work in specific subject-matter areas.

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.1 art unit

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 2422
308 APPS · 69% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

69%
higher than about 23% of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422
AU avg 72%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 22 examiners with published rates in art unit 2422; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition308 decided applications

211 allowed
97 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 14.6mo
disposed 35.6mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.8 mo, disposed 32.3 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 18
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
73%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 76
89%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
43%

Interview benefit

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

without
61%
+22 pts
with
83%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 101 decided applications with an interview and 207 without.

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Questions about Examiner Justin B Sanders

  • What is Justin B Sanders's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 69% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units. This reflects the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that resulted in allowance.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400. The pooled allowance rate shown aggregates the examiner's decisions across that art unit.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual applications depend on claim scope, prior art, and examination history.
  • What subject matter does this examiner work in?
    This examiner works in Technology Center 2400. The public record does not break down outcomes by specific technology or field within that center.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Justin B Sanders 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: 308 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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