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Examiner Lilian Vo

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 57 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2008
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
61%vs 72% weighted peer average11 pts

Examiner Lilian Vo has allowed 35 of 57 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed35abandoned22pending0· 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 (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2195 · 63%AU 2127 · 40%
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What the data says.

Examiner Lilian Vo has a pooled allowance rate of 61% across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). This rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's record. The examiner works across 2 art units within TC 2100. The pooled figure aggregates the examiner's activity across these art units and describes the historical record without predicting outcomes in any specific application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decided applications across multiple art units within TC 2100. The allowance rate shown (61%) is a historical average across all decided applications and art units combined. Aggregate figures describe past outcomes and are correlational data—not predictions about any individual application. To understand variation within specific art units, applicants may review separate per-art-unit records if available.

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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 2195
52 APPS · 63% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines program control and execution.

63% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 73%
DISPOSITION33 / 19 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION36.6 moart unit avg 33.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY59.1 moart unit avg 48.3 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW88%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW53%+35 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 16 decided applications with an interview and 36 without.

ART UNIT 2127
5 APPS · 40% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

40% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION2 / 3 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION9.5 moart unit avg 28.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY16.3 moart unit avg 41.8 mo
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Questions about Examiner Lilian Vo

  • What is Examiner Vo's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 61%, meaning that share of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) were allowed across the examiner's record in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Vo works across 2 art units within Technology Center 2100: 2127 and 2195. This pooled record aggregates all applications across both units.
  • Does the pooled rate predict what will happen to my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes historical outcomes across dozens of decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • Why is the allowance rate a pool across art units?
    This page presents the examiner's overall record combined across all art units they work in. Individual art-unit records, if available separately, may show different rates for specific technical areas.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Lilian Vo 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: 57 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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