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Examiner Peling Andrew Shaw

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 483 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2018
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
81%vs 64% art-unit average+17 pts
higher than about 61% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2444
AU avg 64%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2444; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Peling Andrew Shaw has allowed 393 of 483 decided applications.

393 allowed
90 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Peling Andrew Shaw maintains a pooled allowance rate of 81% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400, Art Unit 2444. This rate represents the percentage of his decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—over the entire decided set. The examiner's record spans a single art unit. The 81% allowance rate is a historical aggregate of past dispositions and does not characterize any future application or predict outcomes in any specific case.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art unit(s) in TC 2400. The 81% figure reflects historical outcomes on applications already resolved. Pooled statistics describe past performance across multiple applications and subject areas within the technology center but are not predictions about any particular application's prosecution path or final disposition.

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 2444
483 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 61% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2444
AU avg 64%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2444; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition483 decided applications

393 allowed
90 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.6mo
disposed 47.7mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.6 mo, disposed 43.7 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 41
24%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
63%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 80
52%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
20%

Interview benefit

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

without
83%
6 pts
with
77%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 151 decided applications with an interview and 332 without.

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Questions about Examiner Peling Andrew Shaw

  • What is Peling Andrew Shaw's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 81%, representing decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across hundreds of cases in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans 1 art unit: Art Unit 2444 in TC 2400.
  • What does the 81% allowance rate mean for my application?
    The 81% rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome or prosecution result.
  • Is this data current?
    This pooled record reflects the examiner's public statistics. Individual application outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and prosecution history, not on pooled historical rates.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Peling Andrew Shaw 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: 483 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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