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Examiner Soe Min Hlaing

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 413 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
85%vs 65% art-unit average+20 pts
higher than about 77% 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.

Examiner Soe Min Hlaing has allowed 349 of 413 decided applications.

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

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Soe Min Hlaing's public record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner issued allowances in 85% of cases. This allowance rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications—those marked allowed or abandoned—in the examiner's pooled record. The 85% figure is derived from the complete set of decided cases and represents the examiner's historical disposition pattern across the art unit(s) covered.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates all decided applications across an examiner's assigned art units into a single allowance-rate figure. This aggregate describes the past record only and does not predict outcomes on any specific application. Allowance rates vary by art unit, applicant profile, claim scope, and other case-specific factors. The pooled percentage is a historical summary, not a forecast for any individual prosecution.

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 2451
435 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 77% 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.

Disposition413 decided applications

349 allowed
64 abandoned
Plus 22 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17mo
disposed 30.6mo
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
26%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
55%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
92%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
32%

Interview benefit

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

without
80%
+11 pts
with
91%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 173 decided applications with an interview and 240 without.

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Questions about Examiner Soe Min Hlaing

  • What is Examiner Soe Min Hlaing's allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 85%, meaning that 85% of decided applications in the examiner's pooled record were allowed. This figure describes past dispositions and is not a prediction for any specific application.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Soe Min Hlaing's record spans one art unit in TC 2400.
  • What does the 85% allowance rate mean?
    The 85% figure reflects the percentage of applications that received allowances among all decided (allowed or abandoned) applications in the examiner's historical pooled record. It does not indicate the likelihood of allowance on any future application.
  • How large is the sample behind this 85% figure?
    The allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units. This magnitude indicates the scope of the historical record but does not forecast specific case outcomes.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Soe Min Hlaing 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: 435 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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