Examiner Zhan Chen has allowed 77 of 105 decided applications (73%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Zhan Chen maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Over 105 disposed applications, the examiner allowed 77, yielding an allowance rate of 73%. The allowance rate ranges from 71% to 75% across the examiner's art units. This pooled figure represents the examiner's historical allowance rate across all decided applications in TC 2100 and does not predict outcomes in any individual case.
This record aggregates an examiner's performance across multiple art units within a single technology center. The overall allowance rate of 73% describes past dispositions and reflects the examiner's pooled history. The range (71%–75%) shows variation across the individual art units but does not indicate which art unit produced which rate. These figures are historical data, not forecasts of any specific application's outcome.
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 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 38 decided applications with an interview and 22 without.
Primarily examines software engineering, and error detection, correction, and monitoring.
Based on 45 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Zhan Chen 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: 105 applications.
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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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