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Examiner Christine Y Ng

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 777 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 82% weighted peer average+2 pts

Examiner Christine Y Ng has allowed 652 of 777 decided applications.

652 allowed
125 abandoned
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (82%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2464 · 85%AU 2416 · 72%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Christine Y Ng maintains a public record across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400, spanning 2 art units. Her overall allowance rate stands at 84% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned; pending applications are excluded from this calculation). Across her art units, allowance rates range from 72% to 85%, reflecting variation in the mix of applications and outcomes across different subject-matter areas within the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units into a single figure. This aggregate allowance rate describes past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Variation across art units is normal and reflects differences in application complexity, prior art, and examiner assignment patterns. The aggregate figure is historical context only.

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 2464
779 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 31% of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2464
AU avg 83%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2464; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 27 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 26 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition738 decided applications

624 allowed
114 abandoned
Plus 41 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.1mo
disposed 36.8mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.8 mo, disposed 35.7 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 24
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
42%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
86%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
57%

Interview benefit

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

without
84%
+5 pts
with
89%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 76 decided applications with an interview and 662 without.

ART UNIT 2416
39 APPS · 72% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

72%
higher than about 60% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition39 decided applications

28 allowed
11 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.2mo
disposed 73.9mo
0
84mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Christine Y Ng

  • What is Christine Y Ng's overall allowance rate?
    Her overall allowance rate is 84% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), pooled across all her art units. This is a historical figure and is not a prediction of any specific application.
  • How many art units does she work in?
    Christine Y Ng works across 2 art units within TC 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across her art units?
    Allowance rates range from 72% to 85% across her art units. This variation is typical and reflects differences in application mix and outcomes within the technology center.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Christine Y Ng 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: 818 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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