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Examiner Baoquoc N To

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 1,188 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
88%vs 61% weighted peer average+27 pts

Examiner Baoquoc N To has allowed 1,050 of 1,188 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed1,050abandoned138pending52· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (61%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2154 · 91%AU 2162 · 85%AU 2172 · 50%
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What the data says.

Examiner Baoquoc N To maintains a public record across three art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across more than a thousand decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 88%. This rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The allowance rate ranges from 85% to 91% across the examiner's art units, indicating variation in outcomes by subject-matter area within TC 2100. These figures describe the examiner's historical record and do not predict outcomes for any individual application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's performance across multiple art units into a single allowance-rate figure. This aggregate reflects past outcomes but does not characterize how any specific application will be examined. The range shown indicates that allowance rates differ among the examiner's art units; the overall rate is a blend of those separate rates. Pooled statistics are historical summaries, not forecasts.

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 2154
748 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

91% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION635 / 61 / 52allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.1 moart unit avg 27.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY28.6 moart unit avg 41.9 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 eligibility53%art unit 55%2 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)63%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness55%art unit 87%32 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness23%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW95%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW89%+6 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 284 decided applications with an interview and 412 without.

ART UNIT 2162
480 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

85% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION409 / 71 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.2 moart unit avg 23.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.5 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 eligibility52%art unit 56%4 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)63%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness26%art unit 79%53 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness21%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW96%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW80%+16 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 150 decided applications with an interview and 330 without.

ART UNIT 2172
12 APPS · 50% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
50% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 58%
DISPOSITION6 / 6 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.2 moart unit avg 24.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY36.4 moart unit avg 44.7 mo
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Questions about Examiner Baoquoc N To

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    88%, based on all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across the examiner's art units. This is the share of decided applications that were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Three art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 85% to 91% across the examiner's art units, reflecting differences in outcomes by subject area.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled allowance rate is a historical summary of past decided applications. It is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Baoquoc N To 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: 1,240 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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