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Examiner Jimmy S Lee

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 320 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
57%vs 61% weighted peer average4 pts

Examiner Jimmy S Lee has allowed 183 of 320 decided applications.

183 allowed
137 abandoned
Plus 37 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (61%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2483 · 63%AU 2486 · 46%AU 2482

What the data says.reading this examiner

Jimmy S Lee has a pooled allowance rate of 57% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. His record spans 3 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 46% to 63% across these art units, reflecting variation in the mix of applications and outcomes within his portfolio. This pooled figure represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, and does not include pending applications. The data reflects the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates results across multiple art units into a single overall allowance rate. This aggregate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction for any individual application. Variation within the range (46% to 63%) reflects differences among the art units themselves. The pooled figure is useful context for understanding the examiner's overall record but does not determine the fate of any particular case. Specific art-unit rates appear separately on this page.

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.3 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 2483
249 APPS · 63% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

63%
higher than about 55% of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2483
AU avg 57%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 29 examiners with published rates in art unit 2483; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 30 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 29 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition213 decided applications

134 allowed
79 abandoned
Plus 36 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.9mo
disposed 39.9mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.9 mo, disposed 42.2 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
26%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
59%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
95%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
66%

Interview benefit

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

without
52%
+20 pts
with
72%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 112 decided applications with an interview and 101 without.

ART UNIT 2486
107 APPS · 46% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

46%
higher than about 11% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2486; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 39 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 38 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition107 decided applications

49 allowed
58 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.4mo
disposed 46.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.8 mo, disposed 36.3 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
36%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
53%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
74%

Interview benefit

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

without
24%
+38 pts
with
62%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 61 decided applications with an interview and 46 without.

ART UNIT 2482
1 APPS · LIMITED DATA

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 11.4mo
0
12mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 38.4 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 13
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
0%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Jimmy S Lee

  • What is Jimmy S Lee's overall allowance rate?
    57% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400, pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    3 art units (2482, 2483, 2486).
  • How much variation is there in his allowance rates across art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 46% to 63% across these art units.
  • Does this pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. This pooled figure describes the examiner's historical record only and is not a prediction of any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Jimmy S Lee 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: 357 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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