Examiner Hung Q Pham has allowed 679 of 845 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.
Examiner Hung Q Pham maintains an overall allowance rate of 80% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's record spans 5 art units within this technology center. Allowance rates across these art units range from 63% to 84%, reflecting variation in the examiner's decisions within the pooled record. The 80% figure represents the proportion of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications.
This pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, producing an overall allowance rate that reflects the examiner's past decisions in aggregate. The range of allowance rates (63% to 84%) indicates that outcomes vary across different art units within TC 2100. Pooled figures describe historical patterns only and are not predictions of any specific application's outcome. Individual art-unit records may show different allowance rates and are detailed separately.
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 →
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 information retrieval and database structures.
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.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 437 decided applications with an interview and 278 without.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.
A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 61 decided applications with an interview and 35 without.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.
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Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Hung Q Pham 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: 845 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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