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Examiner Olanrewaju J Bucknor

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 214 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2020
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
81%vs 79% art-unit average+2 pts
higher than about 48% of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2495
AU avg 79%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2495; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 22 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 21 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Olanrewaju J Bucknor has allowed 174 of 214 decided applications.

174 allowed
40 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Olanrewaju J Bucknor maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning a single art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate stands at 81%, reflecting the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) cases in the pooled record. This figure is a historical description of outcomes on applications already resolved and does not predict the outcome of any pending or future application.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across one art unit within TC 2400. The allowance rate of 81% describes what occurred on past decided applications and reflects the proportional mix of those cases. Aggregate statistics characterize historical performance and are not predictions of how any individual application will be examined or decided. Individual application outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and the specific facts of each case.

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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 2495
214 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 48% of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2495
AU avg 79%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 21 examiners with published rates in art unit 2495; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 22 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 21 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition214 decided applications

174 allowed
40 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.4mo
disposed 34.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.3 mo, disposed 35.9 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 39
56%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
58%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
83%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
69%

Interview benefit

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

without
59%
+38 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 127 decided applications with an interview and 87 without.

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Questions about Examiner Olanrewaju J Bucknor

  • What is Examiner Bucknor's allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 81%, representing the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed in the examiner's pooled record across hundreds of decided cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record covers 1 art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The allowance rate is a description of past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific pending or future application. Individual outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and application-specific facts.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those that have been allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from this calculation. The 81% rate is the share of decided cases that were allowed.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Olanrewaju J Bucknor 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: 214 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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