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Examiner Zachary K Huson

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 970 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
91%vs 74% art-unit average+17 pts

Examiner Zachary K Huson has allowed 879 of 970 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed879abandoned91pending21· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Zachary K Huson maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 91%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The allowance rate is pooled across the examiner's art-unit assignments and reflects historical disposition patterns only.

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This pooled record aggregates decisions across the examiner's assigned art units in TC 2100. The 91% allowance rate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Aggregate statistics reflect historical patterns but do not forecast individual application dispositions. Each application receives examination on its own merits based on the claims, prior art, and applicable law.

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 2181
991 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines interconnection and data transfer between memory, I/O, and processing units, and program control and execution.

91% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 74%
DISPOSITION879 / 91 / 21allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION17.8 moart unit avg 18.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY27.6 moart unit avg 33.3 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 eligibility17%art unit 18%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)60%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness49%art unit 69%20 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness15%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW96%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW90%+6 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 150 decided applications with an interview and 820 without.

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Questions about Examiner Zachary K Huson

  • What is Zachary K Huson's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 91% across hundreds of decided applications in TC 2100. This is the percentage of applications allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned), excluding pending cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2100.
  • Is the 91% allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application is examined individually based on its claims, prior art, and the law.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Zachary K Huson 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: 991 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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These statistics describe past examiner behavior and do not predict the outcome of any particular application. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Where this page compares an examiner's allowance rate to an art-unit average, that comparison is a factual description of the public record, not a characterization of any individual examiner's conduct or competence.

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