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If you qualify for participation in the PPH it makes great sense to attempt to get into the program. Not only will your application move from wherever it is in the prosecution cycle to the front of the line, but the allowance rate for PPH applications is extremely high. The allowance rate for applications that entered the PPH were 84%, which compared to 53% for non-PPH applications. This spread in allowance rates is not coincidental. Because the U.S. patent examiner can leverage the work done by another examiner that has already allowed claims it would seem entirely logical to expect a very high allowance rate in the PPH.