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Examiner Ji H Bae

TECH CENTER 2100 · 4 ART UNITS · 958 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
83%vs 75% weighted peer average+8 pts

Examiner Ji H Bae has allowed 791 of 958 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed791abandoned167pending44· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2115 · 80%AU 2187 · 82%AU 2176 · 96%AU 2118 · 77%
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What the data says.

Examiner Ji H Bae maintains a pooled allowance rate of 83% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans 4 art units within this technology center. Allowance rates across these art units range from 77% to 96%, reflecting variation in the composition and outcomes of applications examined across different subject-matter areas within TC 2100. The pooled 83% figure represents the overall share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) matters in the examiner's record.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled allowance rate aggregates outcomes across multiple art units and represents a historical average of the examiner's decisions on allowed and abandoned applications. This aggregate figure describes the examiner's past record and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Variation across individual art units means that the rate within any single art unit may differ materially from the pooled average. The range reflects this disparity in the examiner's record across different subject areas.

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 2115
520 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines control or regulating systems, and electric power networks.

80% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 81%
DISPOSITION417 / 103 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION26.3 moart unit avg 25.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.6 moart unit avg 36.3 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 eligibility24%art unit 33%9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)42%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness56%art unit 83%27 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness72%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW75%+19 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 150 decided applications with an interview and 370 without.

ART UNIT 2187
254 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

82% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION208 / 46 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION17.7 moart unit avg 23.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY29 moart unit avg 36.4 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 eligibility24%art unit 40%16 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)49%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness56%art unit 77%21 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness83%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW90%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW72%+18 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 145 decided applications with an interview and 109 without.

ART UNIT 2176
171 APPS · 96% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.

96% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 59%
DISPOSITION122 / 5 / 44allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.6 moart unit avg 23.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY28.6 moart unit avg 40.5 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 eligibility27%art unit 40%13 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)56%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness51%art unit 87%36 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness90%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW98%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW93%+5 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 83 decided applications with an interview and 44 without.

ART UNIT 2118
57 APPS · 77% ALLOWANCE
77% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 73%
DISPOSITION44 / 13 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.2 moart unit avg 22.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.6 moart unit avg 36.4 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 eligibility30%art unit 30%±0 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)54%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness66%art unit 82%16 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness95%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW95%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW68%+27 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 19 decided applications with an interview and 38 without.

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Questions about Examiner Ji H Bae

  • What is Ji H Bae's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 83%, representing the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) matters across the examiner's record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 4 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates across the examiner's art units range from 77% to 96%.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate apply to my specific application?
    The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Rates vary across individual art units and depend on many factors unique to each application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ji H Bae 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: 1,002 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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