Examiner Philip J Chea has allowed 48 of 104 decided applications (46%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Philip J Chea maintains a public record spanning one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across 104 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 48 and abandoned 56, yielding an allowance rate of 46% over the decided pool. This figure reflects the ratio of allowed to all decided applications in the examiner's record. The pooled record aggregates outcomes across the single art unit and does not predict outcomes for any individual application.
A pooled record aggregates applications across all art units under an examiner's jurisdiction. The allowance rate here is a historical summary of decisions made, expressed as a percentage of disposed (decided) applications. This aggregate figure describes past outcomes only and is not predictive of any particular application's disposition. Individual cases may vary based on claim scope, art cited, and other case-specific factors.
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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.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 25 decided applications with an interview and 79 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Philip J Chea 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 June 25, 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: 104 applications.
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