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Examiner Khanh B Pham

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 1,073 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
72%vs 62% weighted peer average+10 pts

Examiner Khanh B Pham has allowed 773 of 1,073 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed773abandoned300pending53· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (62%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2166 · 73%AU 2177 · 63%AU 2167 · 55%
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What the data says.

Khanh B Pham maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning 3 art units. Across more than a thousand decided applications pooled from these art units, the examiner's allowance rate is 72%. The allowance rate ranges from 55% to 73% across these art units. This pooled figure reflects all decided applications—both allowed and abandoned—and does not include pending matters. The range reflects variation in the examiner's record within each art unit's subject matter.

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How to read these numbers.

This record is a pooled aggregate across multiple art units within TC 2100. The 72% allowance rate describes the examiner's past decisions on applications that have concluded (allowed or abandoned), not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures combine different art units and technologies, so the aggregate rate is a general profile, not a unit-specific measure. Individual art-unit records may show different patterns and appear in the examiner's separate per-unit 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 →

// BY ART UNIT

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 2166
1,074 APPS · 73% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

73% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 63%
DISPOSITION742 / 279 / 53allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21 moart unit avg 23.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY42.9 moart unit avg 45 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 eligibility29%art unit 44%15 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)90%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness71%art unit 81%10 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness32%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW80%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW66%+14 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 484 decided applications with an interview and 537 without.

ART UNIT 2177
32 APPS · 63% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA
63% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION20 / 12 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION21.2 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY31.9 moart unit avg 40.7 mo
ART UNIT 2167
20 APPS · 55% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

55% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 67%
DISPOSITION11 / 9 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION29.5 moart unit avg 24.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY53.3 moart unit avg 41.2 mo
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Questions about Examiner Khanh B Pham

  • What is Khanh B Pham's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate across all art units is 72%, calculated from decided applications (allowed and abandoned, pending excluded).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner has a public record in 3 art units within TC 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 55% to 73% across these art units. Detailed per-art-unit records are published separately.
  • What does this pooled record represent?
    It aggregates decided applications across all art units the examiner has worked in TC 2100. It is a historical summary and is not a prediction of any specific application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Khanh B 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: 1,126 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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