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Examiner Luu-Phuong T Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2100 · 1 ART UNIT · 179 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION SEP 2020
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
51%vs 55% art-unit average4 pts

Examiner Luu-Phuong T Nguyen has allowed 91 of 179 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed91abandoned88pending0· pending excluded from the rate
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
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What the data says.

Examiner Luu-Phuong T Nguyen maintains a public record in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's pooled allowance rate across decided applications is 51 percent. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's record, excluding pending matters. The examiner's record spans one art unit. The pooled data aggregates decisions across hundreds of decided applications.

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How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's decisions across all assigned art units. The allowance rate describes the historical record—the ratio of allowed to decided applications—and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Pooled figures represent an average across potentially different art units and cannot forecast how any individual application will be examined or decided. Past rates describe what occurred; they are correlational data only.

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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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 2177
179 APPS · 51% ALLOWANCE
51% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION91 / 88 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION20.2 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.5 moart unit avg 40.7 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 eligibility50%art unit 40%+10 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)100%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness92%art unit 90%+2 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness34%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW67%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW28%+39 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 104 decided applications with an interview and 75 without.

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Questions about Examiner Luu-Phuong T Nguyen

  • What is Examiner Nguyen's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 51 percent, calculated across all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) in the public record.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the pooled allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The pooled rate describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual applications are examined on their own merits.
  • How large is the data sample?
    The pooled allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications across all art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Luu-Phuong T 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: 179 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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