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Examiner Stephen T Gundry

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 679 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
92%vs 75% art-unit average+17 pts
higher than about 74% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Stephen T Gundry has allowed 624 of 679 decided applications.

624 allowed
Plus 31 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Stephen T Gundry maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400, across 1 art unit. His pooled allowance rate is 92% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the percentage of applications in his record that were allowed, out of all applications that were decided (allowed or abandoned). The 92% rate is the examiner's historical record and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across all art units where the examiner has decided applications. The allowance rate and application statistics reflect the examiner's past decisions and provide a historical baseline. These figures describe what has occurred, not what will occur in any individual case. Aggregated rates do not predict outcomes for specific applications or applicants.

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 2435
710 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

92%
higher than about 74% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition679 decided applications

624 allowed
Plus 31 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.2mo
disposed 25.6mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.8 mo, disposed 41.4 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 37
35%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
32%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
47%

Interview benefit

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

without
89%
+8 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 259 decided applications with an interview and 420 without.

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Questions about Examiner Stephen T Gundry

  • What is Stephen T Gundry's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 92%, meaning that 92% of his decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) have been allowed. This is a historical statistic across hundreds of decided applications and is not a prediction for any specific application.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit in Technology Center 2400. The pooled figures shown here aggregate his record across that art unit.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is the share of decided applications that were allowed, calculated only from applications that have been decided (allowed or abandoned). Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
  • Is the allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical record of past decisions. It is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application and does not account for the unique facts, claims, or art applicable to any individual case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Stephen T Gundry 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: 710 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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