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Examiner Monica M Pyo

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 693 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
83%vs 62% art-unit average+21 pts

Examiner Monica M Pyo has allowed 575 of 693 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed575abandoned118pending29· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Monica M Pyo maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), covering one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate stands at 83%. This represents the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided cases in the pooled record. The 83% figure is calculated from applications with final dispositions and does not include pending applications.

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This profile aggregates the examiner's record across all art units under their jurisdiction. The pooled allowance rate of 83% describes past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Aggregate figures mask variation across art units and time; they reflect historical data only. Individual applications may experience different examination paths based on claim scope, prior art, and other case-specific factors.

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 2161
722 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

83% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION575 / 118 / 29allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.2 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.2 moart unit avg 39 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 eligibility61%art unit 52%+9 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)75%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 88%+5 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness48%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW93%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW63%+30 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 461 decided applications with an interview and 232 without.

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  • What is Monica M Pyo's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 83%, calculated as the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) across hundreds of cases in the pooled record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the 83% allowance rate mean for my application?
    The 83% figure describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction for any individual case. Each application is examined on its own merits based on claim language and prior art.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Monica M Pyo 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: 722 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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