Examiner Hien Luongvan Duong has allowed 508 of 671 decided applications (76%) in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Hien Luongvan Duong maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Over 671 disposed applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 76%. The allowance rate ranges from 73% to 89% across these art units. Of the 722 total applications in the record, 508 were allowed and 163 were abandoned. This pooled figure aggregates outcomes across multiple art units and reflects historical disposition data only.
This record pools results from multiple art units within TC 2100. The aggregate allowance rate describes past dispositions and is not a prediction for any specific pending application. Allowance rates vary across individual art units; the range shown reflects this variation. Pooled statistics represent historical outcomes and do not indicate how any particular application will be examined or decided.
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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.
Primarily examines general computer details, and program control and execution.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 211 decided applications with an interview and 335 without.
Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 67 decided applications with an interview and 58 without.
Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hien Luongvan Duong 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 June 25, 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.
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