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Examiner Schquita D Goodwin

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 315 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
67%vs 58% art-unit average+9 pts
higher than about 46% of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2459
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2459; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Schquita D Goodwin has allowed 212 of 315 decided applications.

212 allowed
103 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Schquita D Goodwin's public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the allowance rate is 67%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending applications. The allowance rate of 67% is the examiner's pooled record across the art units covered in this profile.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across the examiner's art units, producing a single allowance rate that describes past examination activity. The 67% figure is a historical snapshot—a summary of decided applications already closed. Aggregate rates do not predict the outcome of any individual application, which may involve distinct claim scope, prior art, or examiner reasoning not captured in aggregate statistics.

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 2459
359 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

67%
higher than about 46% of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2459
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2459; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition315 decided applications

212 allowed
103 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.6mo
disposed 44.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.3 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 39
43%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
86%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
94%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
70%

Interview benefit

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

without
60%
+14 pts
with
74%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 171 decided applications with an interview and 144 without.

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Questions about Examiner Schquita D Goodwin

  • What is Examiner Goodwin's overall allowance rate?
    67% of decided applications were allowed. This is the share of allowed applications among all applications that were decided (allowed or abandoned), pooled across all art units in the examiner's record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate mean for my application?
    The allowance rate is a historical aggregate of past decisions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application is examined on its individual merits.
  • How large is the sample underlying this record?
    The allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Schquita D Goodwin 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: 359 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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