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Examiner Marnie A Matt

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 607 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
91%vs 66% weighted peer average+25 pts

Examiner Marnie A Matt has allowed 552 of 607 decided applications.

552 allowed
Plus 33 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (66%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2485 · 91%AU 2482

What the data says.reading this examiner

Marnie A Matt maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across 2 art units. The examiner's pooled allowance rate stands at 91% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications in the examiner's pooled record that issued as allowed, measured against all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The record spans multiple art units within TC 2400, and the pooled rate aggregates outcomes across this breadth of subject matter.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across 2 art units in TC 2400. The 91% allowance rate describes historical disposition outcomes across all decided applications in that combined set. Pooled figures describe past record only and are not predictions about the outcome of any individual application. Different art units may show distinct patterns; per-art-unit detail appears separately on this page.

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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 2485
639 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 93% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2485
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2485; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition607 decided applications

552 allowed
Plus 32 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.4mo
disposed 25mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 27.1 mo, disposed 40.3 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
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
75%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
76%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
44%

Interview benefit

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

without
90%
+3 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 184 decided applications with an interview and 423 without.

ART UNIT 2482
1 APPS · LIMITED DATA

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 14.3mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 38.4 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 13
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
0%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
100%

Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Marnie A Matt

  • What is Marnie A Matt's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 91% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the percentage of allowed applications among all decided cases (allowed plus abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Marnie A Matt's public record spans 2 art units within TC 2400. The pooled figures on this page aggregate outcomes across both art units combined.
  • Does this pooled rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. This pooled allowance rate describes historical disposition across past decided applications. It is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application, and outcomes may vary by art unit and application facts.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those that have been allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded. The 91% rate is calculated as allowed applications divided by the total of allowed and abandoned applications.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Marnie A Matt 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: 640 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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