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Examiner Justin T Van Roie

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 401 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
85%vs 82% art-unit average+3 pts
higher than about 38% of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2469
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2469; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 27 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 26 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Justin T Van Roie has allowed 339 of 401 decided applications.

339 allowed
62 abandoned
Plus 53 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Justin T Van Roie maintains a pooled allowance rate of 85% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400, Art Unit 2469. This rate represents the percentage of applications in the decided category—those allowed or abandoned—within the examiner's public record. The examiner's practice spans a single art unit. The 85% figure describes the historical record of decided applications and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art unit(s) in TC 2400. Aggregate allowance rates describe past outcomes and are correlational, not predictive. They do not indicate what will occur in any individual case. Understanding the composition and size of the decided pool—hundreds of applications—provides context for the overall figure but does not forecast 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.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 2469
454 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 38% of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2469
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2469; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 27 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 26 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition401 decided applications

339 allowed
62 abandoned
Plus 53 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.9mo
disposed 32.3mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 34.8 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
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
99%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 90
89%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
64%

Interview benefit

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

without
57%
+35 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 318 decided applications with an interview and 83 without.

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Questions about Examiner Justin T Van Roie

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 85%, meaning that percentage of allowed and abandoned applications were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit in Technology Center 2400: Art Unit 2469.
  • Does the pooled rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled 85% rate describes decided applications in the past record. It is not a prediction of any specific pending application and does not account for individual claim scope, prior art, or prosecution facts.
  • What does the 85% figure include?
    The allowance rate reflects decided applications only—those allowed or abandoned—and excludes pending applications from the calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Justin T Van Roie 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: 454 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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