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Examiner Daniel D Tsui

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 720 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
91%vs 72% weighted peer average+19 pts

Examiner Daniel D Tsui has allowed 657 of 720 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed657abandoned63pending21· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (72%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2132 · 95%AU 2185 · 55%AU 2182 · 84%
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What the data says.

Daniel D Tsui maintains a public record across 3 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, his pooled allowance rate is 91%, measured as a percentage of applications that were either allowed or abandoned. The allowance rate ranges from 55% to 95% across these art units, reflecting variation in outcomes by subject matter and art-unit assignment within the technology center.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decided applications across multiple art units in TC 2100. The 91% figure represents historical outcomes on applications that reached a final disposition (allowed or abandoned); it is a summary of past decisions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Variation across art units reflects differences in subject matter, examiner assignments, and application characteristics within the technology center.

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 2132
639 APPS · 95% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.

95% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION590 / 28 / 21allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION16.8 moart unit avg 27.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY26.4 moart unit avg 41 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 eligibility12%art unit 21%9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)75%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness77%art unit 81%4 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness28%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW96%-2 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 144 decided applications with an interview and 474 without.

ART UNIT 2185
65 APPS · 55% ALLOWANCE
55% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION36 / 29 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION27.1 moart unit avg 21.6 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.1 moart unit avg 36.3 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 eligibility39%art unit 19%+20 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)58%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness84%art unit 77%+7 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness47%no art-unit benchmark
ART UNIT 2182
37 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines data-processing methods for specific functions, and processing data by its order or content.

84% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION31 / 6 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.5 moart unit avg 24.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.6 moart unit avg 37.3 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 eligibility39%art unit 30%+9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)58%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 76%+21 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness44%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 37 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Daniel D Tsui

  • What is Daniel D Tsui's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 91% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100, calculated as the share of applications allowed or abandoned relative to all decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The record spans 3 art units (2132, 2182, 2185) within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 55% to 95% across the art units. Detailed figures for each art unit appear in a separate section of this page.
  • Is this allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This figure summarizes past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Daniel D Tsui 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: 741 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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