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Examiner Mon Cheri S Davenport

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 555 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
72%vs 74% weighted peer average2 pts

Examiner Mon Cheri S Davenport has allowed 401 of 555 decided applications.

401 allowed
154 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2462 · 70%AU 2478 · 89%AU 2416 · 60%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Mon Cheri S Davenport maintains a pooled allowance rate of 72% across decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 3 art units (2416, 2462, 2478), with the pooled data drawn from hundreds of decided applications. The allowance rate ranges from 60% to 89% across these art units, reflecting variation in the decided record by subject matter within the technology center. This pooled figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications across the examiner's assigned art units.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates performance across multiple art units and subject areas. The overall allowance rate of 72% describes historical performance on decided applications but is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. The range from 60% to 89% indicates that allowance rates vary by art unit within the technology center. Individual art-unit records are available separately and may provide more granular context for applications in specific subject areas.

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The record, art unit by art unit.3 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 2462
427 APPS · 70% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

70%
higher than about 22% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2462
AU avg 77%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2462; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition427 decided applications

299 allowed
128 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.1mo
disposed 47.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.1 mo, disposed 38.3 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 24
21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
48%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
84%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
29%

Interview benefit

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

without
70%
+1 pt
with
71%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 125 decided applications with an interview and 302 without.

ART UNIT 2478
85 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

89%
higher than about 89% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition85 decided applications

76 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 24.7mo
disposed 37.8mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.7 mo, disposed 42.7 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 25
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
43%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
71%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
29%

Interview benefit

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

without
89%
+1 pt
with
90%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 21 decided applications with an interview and 64 without.

ART UNIT 2416
43 APPS · 60% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

60%
higher than about 46% 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.

Disposition43 decided applications

26 allowed
17 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 40.6mo
disposed 64.4mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Mon Cheri S Davenport

  • What is Mon Cheri S Davenport's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 72% across all decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 3 art units: 2416, 2462, and 2478.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 60% to 89% across these art units, reflecting differences in the decided record by subject matter.
  • What does this pooled record tell me about my application?
    The pooled figures describe historical performance and are not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual art-unit records are available for more targeted context.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Mon Cheri S Davenport 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: 555 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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