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Examiner Binh Van Ho

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 659 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 59% weighted peer average+25 pts

Examiner Binh Van Ho has allowed 554 of 659 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed554abandoned105pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (59%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2163 · 82%AU 2152 · 87%
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What the data says.

Examiner Binh Van Ho maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 84%. This represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The allowance rate ranges from 82% to 87% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation in the decided record among the different art units covered.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units within TC 2100. Pooled figures describe past outcomes across all decided applications in those units and do not constitute a prediction about any specific application's outcome. The range reflects allowance-rate variation among different art units; individual applications may fall under different art units with different historical rates. These statistics are correlational and historical only.

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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The record, art unit by 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 2163
415 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

82% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 64%
DISPOSITION342 / 73 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.4 moart unit avg 23.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.9 moart unit avg 40.3 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 eligibility48%art unit 51%3 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)52%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness76%art unit 77%1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness18%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW92%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW81%+11 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 65 decided applications with an interview and 350 without.

ART UNIT 2152
244 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

87% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 49%
DISPOSITION212 / 32 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.5 moart unit avg 28.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.8 moart unit avg 42.9 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility67%art unit 62%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)51%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness77%art unit 88%11 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness27%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW89%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW86%+3 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 84 decided applications with an interview and 160 without.

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Questions about Examiner Binh Van Ho

  • What is Examiner Binh Van Ho's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 84% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 82% to 87% across the examiner's art units.
  • What does the allowance rate measure?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned). Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Binh Van Ho 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: 659 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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