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Examiner Kevin D Mew

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,106 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
92%vs 86% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Kevin D Mew has allowed 1,020 of 1,106 decided applications.

1,020 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (86%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2471 · 93%AU 2416 · 87%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Kevin D Mew maintains a pooled allowance rate of 92% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 87% to 93% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—in his examiner record. The data reflects historical outcomes and does not predict results in any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates Kevin D Mew's record across multiple art units within TC 2400. Pooled figures describe past outcomes across all decided applications in those art units combined. An aggregate allowance rate is not a prediction for any individual case. The range across art units shows variation in outcomes by subject matter within the technology center. Individual application outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, 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.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 2471
1,044 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

93%
higher than about 70% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition1,044 decided applications

966 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.9mo
disposed 26.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 32.5 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 22
29%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
56%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 71
52%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
23%

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 157 decided applications with an interview and 887 without.

ART UNIT 2416
62 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 88% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition62 decided applications

54 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 39.1mo
disposed 60.5mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 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 32
100%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
0%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
0%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Interview benefit

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

without
84%
+8 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 25 decided applications with an interview and 37 without.

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Questions about Examiner Kevin D Mew

  • What is Kevin D Mew's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 92% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This record spans 2 art units. The pooled figures aggregate outcomes across all of them.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 87% to 93% across the art units in this record.
  • What does this allowance rate predict for my application?
    The pooled rate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's result. Outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, examiner analysis, and other case facts.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Kevin D Mew 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: 1,106 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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