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Examiner Matthew T Campbell

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 155 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JAN 2015
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
65%vs 72% weighted peer average7 pts

Examiner Matthew T Campbell has allowed 101 of 155 decided applications.

101 allowed
54 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (72%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2465 · 66%AU 2419 · 62%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Matthew T Campbell maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning hundreds of decided applications. His pooled allowance rate is 65%, meaning that across all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), 65% resulted in allowance. The allowance rate ranges from 62% to 66% across these art units. This record reflects decisions on applications in the technology center and is presented as a historical aggregate, not as a forecast for any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This examiner's pooled record aggregates data from multiple art units within TC 2400. The overall allowance rate of 65% represents the historical share of allowed decisions across all decided applications in those units combined. Pooled figures describe past outcomes and do not predict the disposition of any specific application. Individual art units may have different rates; the range shows this variation exists, though the aggregate provides a single summary of the examiner's decided record.

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 2465
126 APPS · 66% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

66%
higher than about 23% 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.

Disposition126 decided applications

83 allowed
43 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 29.9mo
disposed 50.4mo
0
60mo
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
31%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
81%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
38%

Interview benefit

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

without
64%
+10 pts
with
74%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 19 decided applications with an interview and 107 without.

ART UNIT 2419
29 APPS · 62% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

62%
higher than about 50% 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.

Disposition29 decided applications

18 allowed
11 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 37.5mo
disposed 47mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Matthew T Campbell

  • What is Matthew T Campbell's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 65% across all decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Matthew T Campbell has a public record across 2 art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across his art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 62% to 66% across these art units, indicating variation between units.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The pooled rate describes historical outcomes on hundreds of decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Matthew T Campbell 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: 155 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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