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Examiner Bao G Tran

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 288 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
41%vs 50% weighted peer average9 pts

Examiner Bao G Tran has allowed 119 of 288 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed119abandoned169pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (50%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2158 · 43%AU 2168 · 36%AU 2169 · 0%
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What the data says.

Examiner Bao G Tran maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) across 3 art units. Over hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 41%, meaning that proportion of decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) were allowed. The allowance rate ranges from 36% to 43% across the examiner's art units. This spread reflects variation in the record within the technology center, though the figures presented here describe the pooled record only and are not predictions for any specific application.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates Examiner Tran's record across multiple art units within TC 2100. Pooled allowance rates describe historical outcomes on decided applications and are not predictions about any individual case. The range shown reflects differences among the art units, but no art-unit-specific rate is attributed here. These statistics are correlational historical data only, not forecasts of future application outcomes.

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 2158
243 APPS · 43% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

43% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 48%
DISPOSITION104 / 139 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.6 moart unit avg 23.4 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY68.7 moart unit avg 49.3 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 eligibility62%art unit 52%+10 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)82%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 87%+6 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness48%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW50%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW32%+18 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 141 decided applications with an interview and 102 without.

ART UNIT 2168
42 APPS · 36% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

36% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 65%
DISPOSITION15 / 27 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24.6 moart unit avg 23.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44.6 moart unit avg 43.5 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 eligibility0%art unit 46%46 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 83%+17 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness0%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 42 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2169
3 APPS · 0% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

0% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION0 / 3 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.6 moart unit avg 40 mo
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Questions about Examiner Bao G Tran

  • What is Examiner Bao G Tran's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 41% across hundreds of decided applications pooled from all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner works across 3 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • How much variation is there in allowance rates across art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 36% to 43% across the examiner's art units.
  • Is the pooled allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. These figures describe past outcomes on decided applications only and are not predictions for any specific case.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Bao G Tran 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: 288 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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