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Examiner Ruay L Ho

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 623 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
69%vs 64% weighted peer average+5 pts

Examiner Ruay L Ho has allowed 432 of 623 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed432abandoned191pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (64%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2175 · 64%AU 2126 · 93%AU 2142 · 70%
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What the data says.

Examiner Ruay L Ho maintains a pooled allowance rate of 69% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans three art units within this technology center. The allowance rate across these art units ranges from 64% to 93%, reflecting variation in outcomes depending on the specific art unit and application circumstances. This pooled figure represents the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) cases and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units in TC 2100. The overall allowance rate of 69% describes past decisions and reflects the distribution of outcomes across all decided applications in the examiner's portfolio. Because the rate varies across art units (64% to 93%), individual application outcomes may differ from the pooled figure. This data is historical and does not predict the result of any specific application or prosecution path.

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 2175
477 APPS · 64% ALLOWANCE

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

64% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION307 / 170 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24.4 moart unit avg 22.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.4 moart unit avg 37.8 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 eligibility47%art unit 29%+18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)87%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness85%art unit 87%2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness73%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW67%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW62%+5 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 233 decided applications with an interview and 244 without.

ART UNIT 2126
99 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

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

93% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION92 / 7 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION28.3 moart unit avg 29.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY43.5 moart unit avg 44.4 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 eligibility39%art unit 53%14 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)89%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness89%art unit 88%+1 pt
§112 — Written description & definiteness63%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW96%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW91%+5 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 46 decided applications with an interview and 53 without.

ART UNIT 2142
47 APPS · 70% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

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

70% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 45%
DISPOSITION33 / 14 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION26.7 moart unit avg 30.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.4 moart unit avg 48.3 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 eligibility35%art unit 56%21 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)95%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness88%art unit 91%3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness58%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 47 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Ruay L Ho

  • What is Examiner Ruay L Ho's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 69% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner has a record spanning three art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. Across the examiner's art units, allowance rates range from 64% to 93%, indicating variation in outcomes by art unit.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate tell me?
    The pooled rate of 69% reflects the historical share of allowed applications among all decided cases across all art units. It is not a prediction for any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ruay L Ho 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: 623 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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