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Examiner Patrick Yipao Pei

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 29 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
83%vs 80% art-unit average+3 pts
higher than about 43% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Patrick Yipao Pei has allowed 24 of 29 decided applications.

24 allowed
5 abandoned
Plus 31 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Patrick Yipao Pei maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. His pooled allowance rate stands at 83% of decided applications (allowed and abandoned), calculated across dozens of decided applications. This allowance rate represents his historical record on applications that have reached a final disposition. The 83% figure reflects the proportion of those decided applications that were allowed rather than abandoned. This pooled rate aggregates all decisions within the examiner's covered art units and does not vary across the units in his portfolio.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across all of the examiner's art units into a single allowance-rate figure. That aggregate describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome on any specific application. Pooled records smooth variation across individual art units; applicants seeking art-unit-specific data may consult separate per-art-unit sections. The figures are correlational snapshots of past dispositions, not causal indicators of future results.

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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 2473
60 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

83%
higher than about 43% of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473
AU avg 80%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 30 examiners with published rates in art unit 2473; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 31 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 30 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition29 decided applications

24 allowed
5 abandoned
Plus 31 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.6mo
disposed 36.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 36.4 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 25
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
8%
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Questions about Examiner Patrick Yipao Pei

  • What is Examiner Pei's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 83%, meaning that 83% of his decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) across all art units resulted in allowance. This figure is drawn from dozens of decided applications.
  • How many art units does Examiner Pei cover?
    Examiner Pei's public record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • What does the 83% allowance rate mean for my application?
    The 83% rate is a historical aggregate of past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application is examined individually on its merits.
  • Is this record current across all of Examiner Pei's work?
    Yes, this pooled allowance rate aggregates all decided applications across all of his art units and represents his overall historical record in TC 2400.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Patrick Yipao Pei 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: 60 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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