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Examiner Ji-Hae P Yea

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 246 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
85%vs 87% art-unit average2 pts
higher than about 22% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Ji-Hae P Yea has allowed 209 of 246 decided applications.

209 allowed
37 abandoned
Plus 57 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ji-Hae P Yea has a public record in Technology Center 2400, spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 85%. This rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed or abandoned among all decided cases in the examiner's pooled record. The allowance rate is computed from decided applications only and does not include pending cases. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's work across the art unit(s) in TC 2400.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates outcomes across one art unit in TC 2400. The 85% allowance rate describes past outcomes among decided applications—allowed or abandoned cases—and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures mask variation across individual art units; applicants examining a single art unit's record may observe different patterns. The data presented here is historical and correlational, not predictive.

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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 2471
303 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 22% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition246 decided applications

209 allowed
37 abandoned
Plus 57 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.8mo
disposed 28.9mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 32.5 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 22
10%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
97%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 71
93%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
54%

Interview benefit

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

without
74%
+19 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 147 decided applications with an interview and 99 without.

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Questions about Examiner Ji-Hae P Yea

  • What is Ji-Hae P Yea's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate across all art units is 85%, based on decided applications (allowed and abandoned) in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record covers one art unit within TC 2400.
  • Does this allowance rate apply to my application?
    No. This pooled rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any individual application's outcome. Art unit, claim scope, prior art, and application-specific facts govern examination.
  • How large is the sample underlying this record?
    The allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across the examiner's art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ji-Hae P Yea 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: 303 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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