Examiner Alan S Chou has allowed 21 of 39 decided applications (54%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Alan S Chou maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 39 disposed applications, 21 were allowed and 18 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 54%. This record spans a single art unit. The allowance rate reflects the ratio of allowed to decided applications in the examiner's pooled history and does not indicate the outcome of any particular case.
A pooled record aggregates data across all art units under an examiner's assignment. The allowance rate shown here—54% over 39 decided applications—represents past outcomes combined across that breadth. Aggregate figures describe historical disposition and are not predictions of how any individual application will be examined or decided. Each application is evaluated on its own merits.
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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.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alan S Chou has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated June 25, 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: 39 applications.
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