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Examiner Joseph Jinwoo Suh

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 619 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
81%vs 66% art-unit average+15 pts
higher than about 67% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2485
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2485; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Joseph Jinwoo Suh has allowed 502 of 619 decided applications.

502 allowed
117 abandoned
Plus 39 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Joseph Jinwoo Suh maintains a record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 81%, the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the pooled record. This rate reflects the examiner's historical record across the art unit covered. The data presented here aggregates all activity in that art unit and does not predict outcomes in any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decisions across one art unit within TC 2400. The allowance rate of 81% describes the examiner's past record on decided applications—those that were either allowed or abandoned. Aggregate figures reflect historical patterns and do not constitute predictions about any specific pending or future application. Individual case outcomes depend on application-specific facts and claim presentation.

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.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 2485
658 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 67% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2485
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2485; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition619 decided applications

502 allowed
117 abandoned
Plus 39 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.1mo
disposed 31.1mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 27.1 mo, disposed 40.3 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 23
23%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
72%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
87%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
52%

Interview benefit

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

without
79%
+5 pts
with
84%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 250 decided applications with an interview and 369 without.

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Questions about Examiner Joseph Jinwoo Suh

  • What is Joseph Jinwoo Suh's overall allowance rate?
    81%, based on all allowed and abandoned applications in the pooled record across hundreds of decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    One art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • What does this pooled record represent?
    An aggregation of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across the examiner's art unit. It reflects historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    Applications in Technology Center 2400.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Joseph Jinwoo Suh 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: 658 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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