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Examiner Hanh Thi Minh Bui

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 729 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
84%vs 66% art-unit average+18 pts

Examiner Hanh Thi Minh Bui has allowed 610 of 729 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed610abandoned119pending34· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Hanh Thi Minh Bui maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security), covering one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 84%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The 84% allowance rate is a historical statistic reflecting past dispositions and does not constitute a prediction for any specific application.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units under an examiner's jurisdiction. The allowance rate shown here—84%—is a historical average computed from hundreds of decided applications. This aggregate figure describes what occurred in the examiner's past record and is not a prediction about the outcome of any particular application. Individual art units may have different allowance rates; those figures appear separately on this page.

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 2192
763 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines software engineering.

84% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION610 / 119 / 34allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.2 moart unit avg 29.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY33.5 moart unit avg 45.1 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 45%+8 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)55%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness89%art unit 81%+8 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness31%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW96%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW47%+49 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 549 decided applications with an interview and 180 without.

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Questions about Examiner Hanh Thi Minh Bui

  • What is Examiner Bui's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 84%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned). This reflects the share of applications allowed among all applications with a final disposition.
  • How many art units does Examiner Bui work in?
    Examiner Bui's public record covers one art unit within TC 2100.
  • What does the 84% allowance rate mean for my application?
    The 84% figure is a historical statistic and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Allowance depends on claim scope, prior art, and examination.
  • Is this allowance rate typical for the technology center?
    This page presents only the examiner's record. Comparisons to art-unit or technology-center averages appear in separate sections of the page.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hanh Thi Minh Bui 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: 763 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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