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Examiner Tracy L Williams

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 27 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
81%vs 76% art-unit average+5 pts
higher than about 49% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Tracy L Williams has allowed 22 of 27 decided applications.

22 allowed
5 abandoned
Plus 37 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Tracy L Williams maintains a pooled allowance rate of 81% across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans a single art unit. This allowance rate represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's public record. The figure reflects outcomes on applications that have reached final disposition and does not account for pending applications. The rate is calculated from the examiner's aggregated decisions across all assigned art units.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's decisions across all art units under their assignment. The allowance rate of 81% describes past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation between individual art units, if multiple units are involved, and between different time periods. The data reflects historical disposition patterns and does not indicate how any particular application will be examined.

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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 2465
64 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 49% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition27 decided applications

22 allowed
5 abandoned
Plus 37 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 26.4mo
disposed 37.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 38.1 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 21
18%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
94%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
88%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
61%
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Questions about Examiner Tracy L Williams

  • What is Tracy L Williams' overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 81%, based on dozens of decided applications across all assigned art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Tracy L Williams' public record spans 1 art unit in TC 2400.
  • What does this allowance rate mean for my application?
    The pooled allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications and is not a prediction for any specific case. Actual outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and examination details.
  • How large is the sample of applications behind this rate?
    The rate is based on dozens of decided applications pooled across the examiner's art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Tracy L Williams 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: 64 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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