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Examiner Messeret F Gebre

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 299 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
57%vs 60% art-unit average3 pts
higher than about 33% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445
AU avg 60%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Messeret F Gebre has allowed 170 of 299 decided applications.

170 allowed
129 abandoned
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Messeret F Gebre maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 57%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The allowance rate reflects outcomes in applications that have reached final disposition in this technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates examination outcomes across the examiner's art units and describes the historical allowance rate. The 57% figure is a statistical summary of past decisions and does not predict outcomes in any individual application. Pooled rates describe patterns in a body of completed work; they are correlational data, not forecasts. Each application's path depends on its specific claims, prior art, and prosecution history.

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 2445
346 APPS · 57% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

57%
higher than about 33% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445
AU avg 60%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2445; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition299 decided applications

170 allowed
129 abandoned
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.8mo
disposed 42.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.6 mo, disposed 47.1 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 40
35%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
40%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
99%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
66%

Interview benefit

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

without
45%
+22 pts
with
67%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 162 decided applications with an interview and 137 without.

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Questions about Examiner Messeret F Gebre

  • What is Messeret F Gebre's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 57%, measured across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the percentage of applications allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined).
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record covers one art unit within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction for any specific application. Each application's disposition depends on its individual claims, prior art, and prosecution record.
  • What does 'hundreds of decided applications' mean?
    It indicates the scale of the pooled record. The exact application count appears in the statistics boxes; the narrative refers to the aggregate magnitude only.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Messeret F Gebre 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: 346 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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