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Examiner Hsiungfei Peng

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 708 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
72%vs 62% art-unit average+10 pts
higher than about 52% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2426
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2426; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Hsiungfei Peng has allowed 509 of 708 decided applications.

509 allowed
199 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Hsiungfei Peng maintains a public record across one art unit in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 72%. This rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed, expressed as a share of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The pooled record aggregates examination activity in the assigned art unit and provides a historical snapshot of allowance outcomes without indicating results in any specific pending case.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units to which an examiner is assigned. The allowance rate describes past disposition outcomes and is computed from decided applications only—those that were allowed or abandoned—excluding pending cases. This aggregate figure describes what occurred in the examined record and is not a prediction of the outcome in any individual application. Art-unit specifics, where available separately, may show variation within the pooled total.

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The record, art unit by art unit.1 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 2426
708 APPS · 72% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

72%
higher than about 52% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2426
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2426; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition708 decided applications

509 allowed
199 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.7mo
disposed 45.7mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.8 mo, disposed 39 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 29
25%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
64%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
85%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
70%
+15 pts
with
85%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 103 decided applications with an interview and 605 without.

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Questions about Examiner Hsiungfei Peng

  • What is Examiner Peng's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 72%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications in the examiner's pooled record. This is the share of applications allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned).
  • How many art units does Examiner Peng cover?
    Examiner Peng is assigned to one art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes historical outcomes only and is not a prediction of any specific application's fate. It reflects past decided cases and does not account for individual application facts, amendments, or prosecution history.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those that have been allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hsiungfei Peng 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: 708 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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