Examiner Yongjia Pan has allowed 394 of 603 decided applications (65%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Yongjia Pan has a pooled public record of 645 total applications across five art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Of 603 disposed applications, 394 were allowed, yielding a 65% allowance rate. The examiner's work spans art units 2118, 2144, 2145, 2171, and 2173. Allowance rates across these art units range from 28% to 87%, reflecting variation in the examiner's record by subject-matter specialty within TC 2100.
This pooled record aggregates decisions across five distinct art units. The 65% overall allowance rate describes past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Cross-art-unit records combine different subject-matter areas, so the aggregate figure may differ substantially from rates in any single art unit. Per-unit detail is available separately.
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 →
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 140 decided applications with an interview and 121 without.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 55 decided applications with an interview and 97 without.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 55 decided applications with an interview and 30 without.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 29 decided applications with an interview and 53 without.
Based on 23 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Yongjia Pan 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: 645 applications.
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