Examiner Chase Paul Hinckley has allowed 143 of 208 decided applications (69%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Chase Paul Hinckley maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 239 total applications, 208 have been disposed of (decided). Of those disposed applications, 143 were allowed and 65 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 69% over the decided count. The examiner's practice spans a single art unit, Art Unit 2124. This pooled record reflects outcomes on applications that have reached final resolution.
This pooled record aggregates all applications across the examiner's art unit(s) and describes past outcomes only. The 69% allowance rate is a historical aggregate of decided cases and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation within individual art units; a separate section of this page provides per-art-unit detail. These statistics describe what has occurred, not what will occur in any particular prosecution.
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 →
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 neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 114 decided applications with an interview and 94 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Chase Paul Hinckley 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: 239 applications.
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