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Examiner Insun Kang

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 907 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
79%vs 72% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Insun Kang has allowed 720 of 907 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed720abandoned187pending34· 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 2193 · 80%AU 2198 · 79%AU 2124 · 0%
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What the data says.

Examiner Insun Kang maintains a pooled allowance rate of 79% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans three art units within this technology center. The allowance rate ranges from 79% to 80% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of allowed applications among all decided cases—both allowed and abandoned—and does not include pending applications. The record reflects outcomes across multiple subject-matter areas within TC 2100.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data from multiple art units into a single overall figure. The 79% allowance rate is a historical summary of past decisions across all three art units combined and describes what has occurred, not what will occur in any future application. Allowance rates vary by art unit; the range shown (79% to 80%) reflects this variation. Individual applications are evaluated on their own merits regardless of pooled statistics.

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 2193
776 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines software engineering, and error detection, correction, and monitoring.

80% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 70%
DISPOSITION595 / 147 / 34allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.3 moart unit avg 30.6 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.4 moart unit avg 44 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 eligibility56%art unit 52%+4 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)83%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness76%art unit 83%7 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness73%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW93%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW57%+36 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 474 decided applications with an interview and 268 without.

ART UNIT 2198
158 APPS · 79% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

79% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 83%
DISPOSITION125 / 33 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION35.8 moart unit avg 25.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY58.8 moart unit avg 39.7 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 eligibility56%art unit 51%+5 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)67%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness61%art unit 87%26 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness49%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW92%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW75%+17 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 39 decided applications with an interview and 119 without.

ART UNIT 2124
7 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

0% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 64%
DISPOSITION0 / 7 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION32.7 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY40.7 moart unit avg 41.8 mo
// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Insun Kang

  • What is Examiner Kang's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 79% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    Examiner Kang's public record spans three art units within TC 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate across art units ranges from 79% to 80%, reflecting variation in outcomes by subject area within the technology center.
  • What does the 79% figure mean?
    The 79% is the percentage of allowed applications among all decided cases (allowed plus abandoned) in the examiner's pooled record. It is a historical summary and 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 Insun Kang 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: 941 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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