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Examiner Krisna Lim

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 658 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2020
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
91%vs 66% weighted peer average+25 pts

Examiner Krisna Lim has allowed 600 of 658 decided applications.

600 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (66%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2453 · 91%AU 2451 · 92%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Krisna Lim's public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 91%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The allowance rate ranges from 91% to 92% across the examiner's art units. This pooled record aggregates outcomes from multiple art units and describes the examiner's historical disposition of applications in this technology center.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, creating an overall profile that masks variation among individual units. The figures shown—allowance rate and the range across units—describe what occurred in the past and are not predictions about any specific application. Each art unit may have distinct characteristics. To understand how an application in a particular art unit was handled, refer to that unit's separate statistics. Pooled data provides historical context but does not forecast outcomes in any given case.

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 2453
440 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 71% of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 52 examiners with published rates in art unit 2453; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition440 decided applications

399 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.8mo
disposed 34.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.4 mo, disposed 47.5 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 43
36%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
26%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
61%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
89%
+10 pts
with
99%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 74 decided applications with an interview and 366 without.

ART UNIT 2451
218 APPS · 92% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

92%
higher than about 89% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition218 decided applications

201 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.2mo
disposed 27.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 43.5 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 43
29%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
35%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
69%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
42%

Interview benefit

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

without
90%
+10 pts
with
100%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 52 decided applications with an interview and 166 without.

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Questions about Examiner Krisna Lim

  • What is Krisna Lim's overall allowance rate?
    91% of decided applications were allowed. This is the allowance rate pooled across all art units in the examiner's record and represents outcomes on hundreds of decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Krisna Lim has a public record in 2 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 91% to 92% across the examiner's art units. Per-art-unit detail appears in a separate section of this page.
  • Is this allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. This figure describes the examiner's historical record across hundreds of past decisions and is not a prediction of the outcome in any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Krisna Lim 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.

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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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