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Examiner Paul H Kang

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 109 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2008
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 57% weighted peer average+27 pts

Examiner Paul H Kang has allowed 92 of 109 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed92abandoned17pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (57%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2144 · 84%AU 2141 · 85%
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What the data says.

Paul H Kang maintains an allowance rate of 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). His record spans 2 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate ranges from 84% to 85% across these art units. This figure represents the proportion of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), and does not include pending cases. The pooled record aggregates his work across both art units.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile presents a pooled allowance rate—an aggregate of decisions across multiple art units. The figure describes the examiner's historical record and reflects past outcomes in the decided application population, which excludes pending applications. Pooled rates do not predict outcomes in any individual case, as results vary across art units and depend on application-specific facts and prosecution strategy. The range shown indicates variation among the art units represented in this record.

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 2144
76 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE
84% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION64 / 12 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION32.4 moart unit avg 27.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY57.4 moart unit avg 41.7 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW100%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW79%+21 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 18 decided applications with an interview and 58 without.

ART UNIT 2141
33 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

85% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION28 / 5 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION34 moart unit avg 28.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY52.2 moart unit avg 47.1 mo
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Questions about Examiner Paul H Kang

  • What is Paul H Kang's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 84%, calculated across all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) pooled from his art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Paul H Kang has a record in 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary across his art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 84% to 85% across these art units, indicating some variation in historical outcomes by art unit.
  • What does this allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The pooled rate describes past outcomes across decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual results depend on claim scope, prior art, and prosecution factors specific to each case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Paul H 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: 109 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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