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Examiner Cam Linh T Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,140 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
85%vs 62% weighted peer average+23 pts

Examiner Cam Linh T Nguyen has allowed 965 of 1,140 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed965abandoned175pending23· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (62%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2161 · 85%AU 2171 · 67%
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What the data says.

Examiner Cam Linh T Nguyen maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across more than a thousand decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 85%. This figure reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (those allowed and abandoned, excluding pending cases). The pooled record spans multiple art units within TC 2100, aggregating the examiner's activity across these areas of patent examination.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates decided applications across 2 art units and reports an overall allowance rate of 85%. Pooled figures describe past outcomes across multiple art units combined and represent the examiner's historical record. They do not predict the outcome of any specific application or indicate how any particular case will be examined. Individual art-unit records, when available separately, may differ from this aggregate figure.

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 2161
1,151 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

85% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 62%
DISPOSITION957 / 171 / 23allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.2 moart unit avg 23.1 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY35.9 moart unit avg 39 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 eligibility50%art unit 52%2 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)72%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness58%art unit 88%30 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness19%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW92%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW80%+12 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 471 decided applications with an interview and 657 without.

ART UNIT 2171
12 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
67% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 56%
DISPOSITION8 / 4 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION27 moart unit avg 22 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.4 moart unit avg 37.2 mo
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Questions about Examiner Cam Linh T Nguyen

  • What is Examiner Nguyen's allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 85%, calculated across more than a thousand decided applications. This represents the percentage of decided cases (allowed and abandoned applications) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record covers 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The aggregate figures combine activity across these units.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate of 85% is a historical statistic showing the proportion of decided applications that resulted in allowance. It describes past outcomes only and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • Can I use this rate to predict my application's result?
    No. This pooled rate is a historical aggregate and does not predict the outcome of any particular application. Individual cases depend on their specific facts, claims, and prior art.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Cam Linh T Nguyen 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: 1,163 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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