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Examiner Jensen Hu

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 577 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
69%vs 47% art-unit average+22 pts

Examiner Jensen Hu has allowed 400 of 577 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed400abandoned177pending21· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Examiner Jensen Hu maintains a pooled allowance rate of 69% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). This rate reflects the share of decided applications—those allowed and abandoned—in the examiner's public record. The examiner works within a single art unit. The allowance rate represents historical disposition data and does not characterize the examiner's practices or predict outcomes on any pending or future application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units under an examiner's jurisdiction, presenting an overall historical allowance rate. The 69% figure describes past decided applications and reflects the proportion allowed relative to all decided cases. Aggregate statistics describe the record as a whole and are not predictions about any specific application's outcome. Individual art units may show different rates; those appear 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 2169
598 APPS · 69% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

69% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION400 / 177 / 21allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.4 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.7 moart unit avg 40 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 eligibility60%art unit 57%+3 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)60%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 88%+5 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness31%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW82%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW57%+25 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 292 decided applications with an interview and 285 without.

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Questions about Examiner Jensen Hu

  • What is Examiner Hu's overall allowance rate?
    Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 69%. This reflects the percentage of applications allowed among all decided cases (allowed and abandoned) in the pooled record.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The pooled record covers 1 art unit within Technology Center 2100.
  • Does this allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications. It does not predict the disposition of any specific pending or future application.
  • What technology does this examiner cover?
    This examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jensen Hu 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: 598 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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