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Examiner Seung Woon Jung

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 268 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
65%vs 59% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Seung Woon Jung has allowed 174 of 268 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed174abandoned94pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (59%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2144 · 66%AU 2118 · 76%AU 2177 · 11%
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What the data says.

Seung Woon Jung maintains a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications pooled over these art units, the examiner's allowance rate is 65%. The allowance rate—the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) that were allowed—ranges from 66% to 76% across these art units. This range reflects variation in the examiner's record within the portfolio of art units, though the pooled figure aggregates all decided cases uniformly.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile presents the examiner's pooled record across multiple art units in a single technology center. The allowance rate and range are historical aggregates, reflecting past decisions on decided applications. They describe the examiner's record and do not constitute a prediction of any specific application's outcome. When examining a pooled cross-art-unit profile, note that the aggregate figure masks individual art-unit variation; the stated range shows the breadth of that variation but is not tied to particular art units.

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
234 APPS · 66% ALLOWANCE
66% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION154 / 80 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION19.4 moart unit avg 27.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.3 moart unit avg 41.7 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 eligibility29%art unit 45%16 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)94%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness99%art unit 92%+7 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness66%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW82%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW20%+62 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 174 decided applications with an interview and 60 without.

ART UNIT 2118
25 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
76% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 73%
DISPOSITION19 / 6 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.2 moart unit avg 22.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.3 moart unit avg 36.4 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 eligibility46%art unit 30%+16 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)83%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 82%+18 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness75%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 25 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2177
9 APPS · 11% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
11% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION1 / 8 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION25.5 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY35.8 moart unit avg 40.7 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 eligibility22%art unit 40%18 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness78%art unit 90%12 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness22%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 9 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Seung Woon Jung

  • What is Seung Woon Jung's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 65%, representing the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 3 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 66% to 76% across the examiner's art units, showing variation within the portfolio.
  • What does the pooled figure represent?
    The 65% figure is an aggregate of decisions across all art units. It describes past record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Seung Woon Jung 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: 268 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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