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Examiner Michael J Moore Jr

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,005 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 73% weighted peer average+18 pts

Examiner Michael J Moore Jr has allowed 915 of 1,005 decided applications.

915 allowed
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (73%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2467 · 92%AU 2419 · 73%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Michael J Moore Jr maintains a pooled allowance rate of 91% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 73% to 92% across these art units, reflecting variation in the composition of applications decided within each unit. The 91% figure represents the examiner's overall allowance rate across all decided applications—those approved and abandoned—in the pooled record. This statistic describes past dispositions and does not predict the outcome of any pending or future application.

How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates applications across multiple art units within a single technology center. The pooled allowance rate of 91% is a historical aggregate and reflects the examiner's past decisions across different subject matters within TC 2400. Pooled figures do not represent a prediction for any individual application. Art units within the same technology center may have different application volumes, complexity distributions, and allowance patterns; the range (73% to 92%) reflects this variation. Pooled statistics describe the past record only.

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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 2467
1,000 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

92%
higher than about 92% of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2467
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 25 examiners with published rates in art unit 2467; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 26 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 25 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition953 decided applications

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

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.9mo
disposed 30.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.2 mo, disposed 35.7 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
18%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
67%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
53%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
46%

Interview benefit

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

without
91%
+4 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 170 decided applications with an interview and 783 without.

ART UNIT 2419
52 APPS · 73% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

73%
higher than about 64% 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.

Disposition52 decided applications

38 allowed
14 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.2mo
disposed 71mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 mo.

Interview benefit

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

without
68%
+19 pts
with
87%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 15 decided applications with an interview and 37 without.

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Questions about Examiner Michael J Moore Jr

  • What is Michael J Moore Jr's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 91% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This figure represents the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Michael J Moore Jr has a public record spanning 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 73% to 92% across the examiner's art units, indicating variation in outcomes across different art units within TC 2400.
  • Is the pooled allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome for any specific pending or future application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Michael J Moore Jr 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: 1,052 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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