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Examiner Henry K Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 167 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
58%vs 57% art-unit average+1 pt

Examiner Henry K Nguyen has allowed 97 of 167 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed97abandoned70pending44· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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Henry K Nguyen maintains a pooled allowance rate of 58% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). This record spans a single art unit. The allowance rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's public record. This figure describes historical outcomes and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application.

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This pooled record aggregates examination activity across one art unit in TC 2100. The allowance rate of 58% is a historical aggregate—a summary of past decisions across all examined applications in the examiner's public file. Aggregate figures describe the past record only and are not predictions about any specific future application or outcome. Individual applications may vary in outcome independent of pooled statistics.

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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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 2121
211 APPS · 58% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines neural-network / biological-model computing, and machine learning.

58% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 57%
DISPOSITION97 / 70 / 44allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION30.5 moart unit avg 27 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY54.9 moart unit avg 39.9 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 eligibility60%art unit 46%+14 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)97%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness99%art unit 86%+13 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness69%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW70%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW38%+32 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 104 decided applications with an interview and 63 without.

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Questions about Examiner Henry K Nguyen

  • What is Henry K Nguyen's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 58%, calculated across hundreds of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). This is a historical measure and is not a prediction for any specific application.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record covers one art unit in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of applications that received a final allowance among all decided applications in the examiner's public record. It does not include pending applications and is descriptive of past outcomes only.
  • Is this record a prediction for my application?
    No. This pooled record describes historical examination outcomes and is not a prediction for any specific application. Individual cases vary based on claim scope, prior art, and other application-specific factors.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Henry K 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: 211 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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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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