Examiner Sang H Kim has allowed 161 of 289 decided applications (56%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Sang H Kim maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning 2 art units. Across 289 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 161 and abandoned 128, yielding an allowance rate of 56%. The allowance rate across the examiner's art units ranges from 50% to 66%. This pooled figure aggregates work across multiple art units and reflects the historical record over the period covered by public data.
A pooled record aggregates an examiner's allowance rates across all their assigned art units into a single overall figure. The 56% rate shown here is the weighted result of decisions across different art units within TC 2100, each of which may have different allowance rates. This aggregate statistic describes past dispositions and is not a prediction about any specific application. Individual art-unit records are available separately.
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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 artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 103 decided applications with an interview and 78 without.
Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 70 decided applications with an interview and 38 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Sang H Kim 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: 289 applications.
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