Examiner Harold J Kim has allowed 77 of 96 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Harold J Kim maintains an 80% allowance rate across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His practice spans two art units within this technology center. The allowance rate—the percentage of applications either allowed or abandoned—reflects his pooled record across these art units. Allowance rates among the individual art units range from 63% to 93%, indicating variation in outcomes across different areas of practice within TC 2100. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's decisions without attribution to any particular art unit.
This pooled record aggregates decisions across multiple art units in TC 2100 into a single allowance-rate figure. The 80% overall rate describes historical outcomes, not any prediction about a specific application. The range of 63% to 93% among individual art units reflects the diversity of practice areas covered. Pooled statistics are useful for understanding an examiner's general record but do not account for variation by art unit, technology, or application-specific facts. Always review the complete record, including per-art-unit detail, for fuller context.
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 data-processing methods for specific functions, and processing data by its order or content.
Primarily examines interconnection and data transfer between memory, I/O, and processing units, and program control and execution.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Harold J 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 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: 96 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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