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Examiner Han V Doan

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 226 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAY 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
84%vs 63% weighted peer average+21 pts

Examiner Han V Doan has allowed 190 of 226 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed190abandoned36pending20· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (63%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2136 · 82%AU 2137 · 100%AU 2186 · 62%
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What the data says.

Han V Doan maintains a pooled allowance rate of 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans 3 art units. The allowance rate—the percentage of decided applications that were allowed rather than abandoned—ranges from 82% to 100% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the examiner's aggregate record and does not characterize any single application or art unit in isolation.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units into a single overall allowance rate. This aggregate describes the examiner's historical record across all units combined. The range (82% to 100%) reflects variation among individual art units but does not predict outcomes in any specific case. Pooled statistics are descriptive of past decisions, not predictive of future ones.

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 2136
177 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines input/output (I/O) data transfer.

82% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 60%
DISPOSITION146 / 31 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.1 moart unit avg 27.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY35.7 moart unit avg 43.4 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 eligibility37%art unit 22%+15 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)51%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness99%art unit 83%+16 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness70%no art-unit benchmark
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW91%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW73%+18 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 97 decided applications with an interview and 80 without.

ART UNIT 2137
56 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE

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

100% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 68%
DISPOSITION36 / 0 / 20allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.6 moart unit avg 25.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY37.2 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 eligibility31%art unit 25%+6 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)58%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 84%+9 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness67%no art-unit benchmark
ART UNIT 2186
13 APPS · 62% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines computer-aided design (CAD).

62% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 72%
DISPOSITION8 / 5 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.3 moart unit avg 22.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY44 moart unit avg 35 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 eligibility38%art unit 32%+6 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)38%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness100%art unit 83%+17 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness31%no art-unit benchmark

Based on 13 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Han V Doan

  • What is Han V Doan's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 84% across hundreds of decided applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Han V Doan has a public record in 3 art units within TC 2100.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the examiner's art units?
    Allowance rates range from 82% to 100% across these art units.
  • What technology center does this examiner work in?
    Han V Doan examines applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Han V 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: 246 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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