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Examiner David V Luu

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 187 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
51%vs 56% art-unit average5 pts

Examiner David V Luu has allowed 95 of 187 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed95abandoned92pending21· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

David V Luu maintains a public record across one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, his allowance rate is 51%. This rate reflects the percentage of applications in his pooled record that were allowed, measured against all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The record covers a single art unit and does not break down by individual subject-matter categories.

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How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates the examiner's decisions across all his assigned art units, producing a pooled allowance rate of 51%. Aggregate figures describe past outcomes and are not predictions for any individual application. A pooled rate reflects the examiner's overall history but does not forecast the disposition of a specific case. Applications span different technologies within TC 2100, and examination outcomes depend on application-specific facts.

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 2171
208 APPS · 51% ALLOWANCE
51% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 56%
DISPOSITION95 / 92 / 21allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.4 moart unit avg 22 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY43.8 moart unit avg 37.2 mo
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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 eligibility41%art unit 38%+3 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)62%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness97%art unit 89%+8 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness69%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW63%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW27%+36 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 123 decided applications with an interview and 64 without.

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Questions about Examiner David V Luu

  • What is David V Luu's overall allowance rate?
    His allowance rate is 51% across hundreds of decided applications in his pooled record.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled profile covers one art unit.
  • What technology does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's assignments fall within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does this allowance 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 disposition.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner David V Luu 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: 208 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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