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Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 30 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2018
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
30%vs 53% art-unit average23 pts

Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao has allowed 9 of 30 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed9abandoned21pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao has an overall allowance rate of 30% across dozens of decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, spanning 1 art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). These are pooled figures from the public USPTO record, not predictions about any specific application.

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This page pools Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao's record across 1 art unit into one overall allowance rate — total allowed divided by total decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications, with pending excluded. Aggregate figures describe the past public record and are not predictions about any specific application. This is general information about the data, not legal advice.

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 2179
30 APPS · 30% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
30% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION9 / 21 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24.2 moart unit avg 26.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.8 moart unit avg 43.3 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 eligibility55%art unit 39%+16 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 86%+14 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness79%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 30 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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  • What is Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao's overall allowance rate?
    30% across dozens of decided (allowed plus abandoned) applications in public USPTO data, pooled over 1 art unit.
  • How many art units does Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao examine in?
    1 art unit within Technology Center 2100, based on the public record.
  • Does Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao's allowance rate vary by art unit?
    The per-art-unit figures are shown in the breakdown on this page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hsiyue S Hsiao 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: 30 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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