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Examiner Alpus Hsu

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 976 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 74% weighted peer average+10 pts

Examiner Alpus Hsu has allowed 817 of 976 decided applications.

817 allowed
159 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2465 · 84%AU 2419 · 78%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Alpus Hsu maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's pooled allowance rate stands at 84% across hundreds of decided applications. This rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided cases, excluding pending applications. The allowance rate ranges from 78% to 84% across these art units, indicating variation in the record by subject-matter classification within the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates Alpus Hsu's record across multiple art units within TC 2400. The pooled allowance rate of 84% describes historical outcomes across all decided applications in this combined dataset. Aggregate statistics reflect past decisions and are not predictions of the outcome of any specific application. Individual art units may show different rates; those details appear in separate sections of this site.

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.2 art units

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 2465
907 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

84%
higher than about 59% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2465; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition907 decided applications

763 allowed
144 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23.3mo
disposed 37.9mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.3 mo, disposed 38.1 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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 eligibility
AU 21
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
39%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
49%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
87%

Interview benefit

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

without
80%
+12 pts
with
92%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 292 decided applications with an interview and 615 without.

ART UNIT 2419
69 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

78%
higher than about 71% of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 129 examiners with published rates in art unit 2419; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition69 decided applications

54 allowed
15 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 37.2mo
disposed 55mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 31.1 mo, disposed 44.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Alpus Hsu

  • What is Alpus Hsu's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This is the share of allowed or abandoned applications among all decided cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Alpus Hsu has a public record across 2 art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 78% to 84% across the examiner's art units, showing variation by subject-matter classification.
  • Is the pooled allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. Historical allowance rates are not predictions of any specific application's outcome. They describe past decided cases and do not account for the facts, claims, or art unique to any particular application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Alpus Hsu has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 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: 976 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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