Examiner Yahao Chen

What the data says.

Examiner Yahao Chen has a public record spanning one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Over 82 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 24 and abandoned 58, yielding an allowance rate of 29%. This rate reflects the ratio of allowed to decided applications in the pooled record and does not predict outcomes in any individual case. The record covers a single art unit, making it a straightforward profile of historical decisions in TC 2100 without aggregation across multiple areas of practice.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decisions across one art unit within TC 2100. The 29% allowance rate describes what happened in the examiner's decided caseload—it is a historical summary, not a forecast of any pending or future application. Pooled rates reflect past output across the unit(s) listed and are correlational, not causal. They do not indicate how any examiner will act on a specific claim or amendment.

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 →

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.

Questions about Examiner Yahao Chen

• 01What is Examiner Yahao Chen's overall allowance rate?

  The allowance rate is 29%, calculated from 24 allowed applications out of 82 disposed applications. This describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
• 02How many art units does this record cover?

  The record spans one art unit (2177) within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The pooled rate aggregates decisions within that single unit.
• 03What do 'disposed' and 'abandoned' applications mean here?

  Disposed applications include all decided cases: allowed and abandoned. The 82 disposed applications consist of 24 allowed and 58 abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation.
• 04Does the allowance rate predict my application's outcome?

  No. The allowance rate is a summary of past decisions and does not predict the outcome of any pending or future application. Each application is examined on its individual merits.

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