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Examiner Khanh Q Dinh

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 155 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION NOV 2008
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
70%vs 57% weighted peer average+13 pts

Examiner Khanh Q Dinh has allowed 109 of 155 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed109abandoned46pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (57%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2151 · 70%AU 2155 · 100%
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Khanh Q Dinh maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security) spanning 2 art units. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 70%. This figure reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending filings. The record aggregates decisions across multiple art units within TC 2100 and describes the historical disposition of examined applications.

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This record pools data across multiple art units within TC 2100. The 70% allowance rate is an aggregate figure describing past decisions on applications in this examiner's record. Aggregate statistics describe what occurred historically and are not predictions about any specific application. Individual art units may have different profiles; detailed breakdowns appear in separate sections of this examiner's page.

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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 2151
152 APPS · 70% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

70% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 57%
DISPOSITION106 / 46 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION33.1 moart unit avg 31.7 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY51.7 moart unit avg 44.1 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW95%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW66%+29 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 20 decided applications with an interview and 132 without.

ART UNIT 2155
3 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

100% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION3 / 0 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION18.7 moart unit avg 27.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY25.5 moart unit avg 42.2 mo
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  • What is Khanh Q Dinh's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 70%, representing the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units in this examiner's record.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record spans 2 art units within Technology Center 2100.
  • How many applications are in this record?
    The pooled decided-application set numbers in the hundreds. Specific application counts appear in the stat boxes on this page.
  • Does this allowance rate apply to my application?
    This aggregate figure describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Khanh Q Dinh 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: 155 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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