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Examiner On S Mung

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 745 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
75%vs 68% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner On S Mung has allowed 561 of 745 decided applications.

561 allowed
184 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (68%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2486 · 80%AU 2483 · 41%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner On S Mung maintains a pooled allowance rate of 75% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 41% to 80% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's public record. The range reflects variation in allowance rates across the individual art units within the examiner's assignment.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data from multiple art units into a single overall statistic. The 75% allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record across all decided applications and art units combined. This aggregate figure is descriptive of past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual art-unit records may differ from the pooled average and are reported separately.

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 2486
693 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 63% 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.

Disposition649 decided applications

522 allowed
127 abandoned
Plus 44 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17mo
disposed 32.9mo
0
36mo
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
21%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
63%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
52%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

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 198 decided applications with an interview and 451 without.

ART UNIT 2483
96 APPS · 41% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

41%
higher than about 24% 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.

Disposition96 decided applications

39 allowed
57 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 31.7mo
disposed 43.6mo
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
29%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
59%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 79
90%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
31%
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Questions about Examiner On S Mung

  • What is Examiner On S Mung's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 75% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 41% to 80% across the examiner's art units.
  • Is the pooled rate predictive of my application's outcome?
    No. The pooled allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner On S Mung 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: 789 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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