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Examiner Anh Ly

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,143 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION NOV 2020
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
86%vs 66% weighted peer average+20 pts

Examiner Anh Ly has allowed 983 of 1,143 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed983abandoned160pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (66%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2162 · 87%AU 2172 · 47%
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What the data says.

Examiner Anh Ly maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Over more than a thousand decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 86%. This rate represents the share of applications in the decided pool (allowed and abandoned) and does not include pending applications. The pooled figure aggregates the examiner's activity across multiple art units and reflects the historical record of dispositions to date.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines data across multiple art units, presenting an aggregate view of an examiner's overall allowance rate. This aggregate figure describes the past distribution of allowed and abandoned applications decided by the examiner and is historical context only—it is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Individual art units may have different characteristics, and per-art-unit data appear in separate sections of this page.

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 →

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The record, art unit by 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 2162
1,126 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

87% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION975 / 151 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.8 moart unit avg 23.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.5 moart unit avg 41.8 mo
// REJECTION PROFILE
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 eligibility82%art unit 56%+26 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)56%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness95%art unit 79%+16 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness38%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW94%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW79%+15 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 561 decided applications with an interview and 565 without.

ART UNIT 2172
17 APPS · 47% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
47% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION8 / 9 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.1 moart unit avg 24.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.5 moart unit avg 44.7 mo
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Questions about Examiner Anh Ly

  • What is Examiner Anh Ly's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 86%, calculated across more than a thousand decided applications (allowed and abandoned; pending excluded).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Anh Ly's public record spans 2 art units (2162 and 2172) in TC 2100.
  • Does this pooled rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • What subject matter does this examiner handle?
    The examiner works in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Anh Ly has a public record within Technology Center 2100. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 14, 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: 1,143 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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