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Examiner Alicia M Choi

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 388 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
81%vs 74% art-unit average+7 pts

Examiner Alicia M Choi has allowed 313 of 388 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed313abandoned75pending53· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Examiner Alicia M Choi maintains a public record across 1 art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Her pooled allowance rate stands at 81% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications that issued as allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in her record. The 81% rate describes her historical examination outcomes and does not forecast any individual application's result.

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This pooled record aggregates examination outcomes across all art units in which the examiner has decided applications. The allowance rate reflects past decisions on allowed and abandoned applications and represents a statistical summary of her overall record. Aggregate figures describe historical patterns only and are not predictions about specific applications. Individual cases may vary based on claim scope, prior art, and application-specific factors.

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 →

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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.

◈ PRIMARY · ART UNIT 2117
441 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems.

81% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 74%
DISPOSITION313 / 75 / 53allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.3 moart unit avg 20.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.2 moart unit avg 33.2 mo
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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 eligibility52%art unit 33%+19 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)70%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness83%art unit 78%+5 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness71%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW93%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW66%+27 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 217 decided applications with an interview and 171 without.

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Questions about Examiner Alicia M Choi

  • What is Examiner Alicia M Choi's overall allowance rate?
    Her pooled allowance rate is 81% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100. This is the percentage of applications that issued as allowed among all decided applications in her record.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record spans 1 art unit. The examiner's work is concentrated in Art Unit 2117 within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the allowance rate mean for my application?
    The allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual applications depend on claim language, prior art, and examination facts unique to each case.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alicia M Choi 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 July 14, 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: 441 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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