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Examiner Duc T Doan

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 722 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2018
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
82%vs 67% weighted peer average+15 pts

Examiner Duc T Doan has allowed 593 of 722 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed593abandoned129pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (67%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2185 · 83%AU 2135 · 83%AU 2188 · 80%
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What the data says.

Examiner Duc T Doan maintains a public record across Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), spanning 3 art units. Across hundreds of decided applications in this examiner's pooled record, the allowance rate stands at 82%. The allowance rate ranges from 80% to 83% across these art units. This figure represents the share of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending matters. The pooled record aggregates outcomes from multiple art units within TC 2100, providing a cross-unit summary of dispositions on the examiner's caseload.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled allowance rate aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units into a single figure. This aggregate rate describes historical outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual art units within TC 2100 may show variation; the range of allowance rates across these units is included in the data. Pooled figures are most useful for understanding the examiner's overall historical record rather than predicting results in any particular matter.

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 2185
320 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE
83% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION265 / 55 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.8 moart unit avg 21.6 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY45.5 moart unit avg 36.3 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 eligibility27%art unit 19%+8 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)16%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness92%art unit 77%+15 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness57%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW78%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW84%-6 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 50 decided applications with an interview and 270 without.

ART UNIT 2135
217 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer, and memory access and allocation.

83% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION180 / 37 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION16.5 moart unit avg 26.3 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY30.1 moart unit avg 41.7 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 eligibility14%art unit 21%7 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)50%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness78%art unit 84%6 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness72%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW85%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW82%+3 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 52 decided applications with an interview and 165 without.

ART UNIT 2188
185 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

80% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION148 / 37 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION24 moart unit avg 26.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY41.8 moart unit avg 39.7 mo
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW91%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW78%+13 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 32 decided applications with an interview and 153 without.

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Questions about Examiner Duc T Doan

  • What is Examiner Doan's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 82%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) in the examiner's pooled record across all art units in TC 2100. This figure is not a prediction for any specific application.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Doan has a public record spanning 3 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 80% to 83% across the examiner's art units. This range reflects variation in outcomes among the different art units covered by this examiner.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Duc T Doan 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: 722 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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