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Examiner Elias Young Kim

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 90 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT

Examiner Elias Young Kim has allowed 71 of 90 decided applications (79%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

79% pooled allowance · benchmarked per art unit below
DATA UPDATED JUNE 25, 2026
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What the data says.

Elias Young Kim maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 117 total applications, 90 applications have been disposed of (decided). Of those 90 disposed applications, 71 were allowed and 19 were abandoned, yielding an allowance rate of 79% over the decided count. The examiner's record spans a single art unit, Art Unit 2135. This pooled figure describes the examiner's historical record and does not constitute a prediction for any specific pending application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all dispositions across the examiner's art units in TC 2100. The 79% allowance rate is calculated from decided applications only (allowed plus abandoned), excluding any pending filings. Pooled figures describe past outcomes and represent a snapshot of the examiner's historical record. They are correlational data and are not predictive of any individual application's outcome. Art-unit-level detail may vary and is presented separately.

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 2135
117 APPS · 79% ALLOWANCE

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

79% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION71 / 19 / 27allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION15.9 moart unit avg 26.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32.9 moart unit avg 41.7 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
§101 — Subject-matter eligibility12% · art unit 21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)97%
§103 — Obviousness97% · art unit 84%
§112 — Written description & definiteness73%
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW87%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW59%+28 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 63 decided applications with an interview and 27 without.

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Questions about Examiner Elias Young Kim

  • What is Elias Young Kim's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 79%, calculated from 71 allowed applications out of 90 total disposed applications in the examiner's pooled record in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit (Art Unit 2135) within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does this allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The allowance rate reflects the examiner's historical record of decided applications and is not a prediction for any specific pending case. Each application is examined individually on its own merits.
  • How many applications has this examiner decided?
    The examiner has disposed of 90 applications (allowed or abandoned). The total applications on record is 117, which includes pending filings not yet decided.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Elias Young Kim 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: 117 applications.

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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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