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Examiner Virginia T Ho

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 94 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2013
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
73%vs 68% art-unit average+5 pts
higher than about 51% of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 47 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Virginia T Ho has allowed 69 of 94 decided applications.

69 allowed
25 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Virginia T Ho maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. Across dozens of decided applications, the allowance rate is 73%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The pooled record reflects dispositions across the examiner's assigned art unit(s) and does not isolate performance by individual art unit.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate shown reflects past decisions on applications that reached final disposition (allowed or abandoned). This aggregate figure describes what occurred in the examined applications and is not a prediction about the outcome of any particular application. Individual art-unit records, where available separately, may show variation from the pooled rate.

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 2432
94 APPS · 73% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

73%
higher than about 51% of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 47 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition94 decided applications

69 allowed
25 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.5mo
disposed 56.6mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 42.6 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 37
63%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
46%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
63%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
79%

Interview benefit

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

without
68%
+26 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 18 decided applications with an interview and 76 without.

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Questions about Examiner Virginia T Ho

  • What is Virginia T Ho's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 73% across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all applications that reached a final decision (allowed or abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    This record spans one art unit. The pooled data shown here aggregates all applications decided across that art unit.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes past dispositions and is not a prediction of any specific application. Individual applications depend on their own facts, claims, and prosecution history.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean?
    Decided applications are those that reached final disposition—either allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Virginia T Ho 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: 94 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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