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Examiner Miranda Le

TECH CENTER 2100 · 6 ART UNITS · 629 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION AUG 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 6 ART UNITS
71%vs 60% weighted peer average+11 pts

Examiner Miranda Le has allowed 448 of 629 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

448 allowed
181 abandoned
Plus 28 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (60%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (6 art units).
DATA UPDATED AUGUST 27, 2026
AU 2153 · 76%AU 2168 · 69%AU 2159 · 75%AU 2167 · 47%AU 2169 · 71%AU 2177 · 67%
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Outcomes over timemonths since first office action

grantedpendingabandoned
granted 58%abandoned 24%0%50%100%048mo36momonths since first office action
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Within 36 months of the first office action, 57.64% of Examiner Miranda Le's applications had been granted and 24.48% had been abandoned. This counts each application from its own first office action, so it covers a different population than the overall allowance rate above, which is measured across decided applications only.

Office actions per allowanceexaminer ● vs weighted peer average ○

Mailed office actions per allowed application
2.28
3.07

Counts mailed office actions on the merits — non-final and final — over this examiner's 448 allowed applications. A first-action allowance counts as zero, and a notice of allowance is not an office action.

The weighted peer average (2.28) blends the per-art-unit averages, weighted by this examiner's allowed applications in each: 2153 (2.08), 2168 (2.45), 2159 (2.96), 2167 (1.97), 2169 (2.16), 2177 (2.12). Each art-unit figure is the unweighted mean of the individual examiner values in that art unit — the peer-typical figure, not the art unit's own ratio.

What the data says.reading this examiner

Miranda Le maintains a pooled allowance rate of 71% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Her record spans 6 art units within this technology center. The allowance rate ranges from 47% to 76% across these art units, reflecting variation in the decided record across different subject-matter areas within TC 2100. The pooled 71% figure represents applications that were either allowed or abandoned, excluding pending matters.

Reading a pooled record.

This pooled record aggregates Miranda Le's decisions across multiple art units in TC 2100. The 71% allowance rate describes her historical record on decided applications—those that concluded as allowed or abandoned. Pooled figures mask variation among individual art units; separate data on each art unit appears elsewhere on this page. These statistics describe past decisions and are not predictions about any specific application.

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 →

Appeals, stage by stagepre-appeal conference, then the Board

STAGE 1 · CONFERENCE23%77%47REQUESTSn = 47rates shown
36 of 47 proceed
+ 58 never asked
STAGE 2 · APPEAL82%9%105APPEALSn = 105rates shown
STAGE 1 · CONFERENCE OUTCOME · n = 47
  1. Proceeded to appeal3677%
  2. Prosecution reopened1123%
STAGE 2 · APPEAL OUTCOME · n = 105
  1. Allowed8682%
  2. Abandoned109%
  3. Reversed55%
  4. Affirmed22%
  5. Affirmed in part11%
  6. Pending11%

Appeal outcomes are counted from USPTO transaction records. Where an examiner has few appeals on record, these figures describe what happened in those cases and should not be read as a rate.

Categories report what happened to the appeal, not the application's final fate — most appeals resolve without a Board decision, and an application whose rejection the Board affirmed can still be granted afterward.

HOW TO READ THESE NUMBERS

Past outcomes, not predictions — identity, attribution, and coverage limits on every figure on this page. Expand for the full list.

These figures describe outcomes already on the public record. They do not predict the outcome of any application and are not legal advice.

Reassigned applications. The USPTO publishes only the examiner currently assigned to an application. Where an application has changed examiners, its entire history — including office actions issued by a predecessor — is attributed here to the current examiner.

Examiner identity. The USPTO publishes no stable examiner identifier. Identity on this site is derived from the examiner's published name together with the art unit. An examiner's record is pooled across the art units they worked in within a technology center. An examiner who has worked in more than one technology center appears here more than once, with their record split between those pages. Two examiners who share a name within a single art unit may be combined into one record.

Comparing across technology centers. Rejection-ground rates (§101, §102, §103, §112) track the subject matter a technology center examines, not examiner severity. Technology Center 2100's rates are comparable with other art units inside TC 2100 and are not comparable with rates from a different technology center.

Comparing examiners. An examiner's rates are shown here against the average for their art unit, which is the closest available comparison because art units group related subject matter. Comparisons get less reliable the further you move from that — between art units, and especially between technology centers, differences in subject matter, applicant population, and prior art make raw rate comparisons misleading. Where an examiner has few applications on record, small changes in the underlying data move the percentages a great deal.

Applications not counted. An application whose currently assigned examiner has moved to a USPTO business unit outside the examining technology centers is absent from this record, together with every office action on it — even where those actions issued while the application sat in an art unit shown here.

Coverage is incomplete. This site does not include every patent application. Applications that may not appear here include those examined in technology centers not listed on this site; those that moved elsewhere within the Office, such as to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on appeal, to central reexamination, to the Office of Petitions, or to design or plant examination; those never published, including applications filed with a nonpublication request and those abandoned before publication; provisional applications, which are not examined on the merits; anything filed or acted on after the refresh date above; and individual applications or office actions that the USPTO's public services did not return when we retrieved them. That list is illustrative, not exhaustive.

Counts may be low. The individual outcomes described here are matters of public record. The counts and rates computed from them are ours, and they are incomplete. Because of those gaps a count here may be lower than the true figure. We cannot state the size of the difference, and it is not uniform — one examiner's page may be close to complete while another's is materially short. Rates are computed from these same counts, so the uncertainty sits in both the numerator and the denominator. Do not treat a figure here as a count of record; verify against Patent Center, PatentsView, or the Patent Examination Data System before relying on it.

An absent figure. Where a figure is absent, we did not retrieve the underlying records. It does not mean the value is zero, and it does not mean the USPTO holds no such records.

Rejection-ground retrieval. Office-action rejection records are retrieved from the USPTO's office-action dataset in date-bounded batches sized so that each is returned whole in a single response. Retrieved this way, repeated pulls return the same set of records — the retrieval is reproducible. That is a property of our retrieval, not a guarantee that the USPTO dataset itself is complete; the coverage caveats above apply to these figures as to every other.

Compiled from USPTO records as published on August 27, 2026. Prosecution continues after that date and is not reflected here.

The record, art unit by art unit.6 art units

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 2153
352 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 64% of the 55 examiners with published rates in art unit 2153
AU avg 57%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 55 examiners with published rates in art unit 2153; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition324 decided applications

246 allowed
78 abandoned
Plus 28 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22mo
disposed 45.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 27.6 mo, disposed 43.1 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
53%
59%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
76%
92%
§103 — Obviousness
77%
99%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
34%
37%

Interview benefit

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

without
8%
+81 pts
with
89%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 271 decided applications with an interview and 53 without.

ART UNIT 2168
118 APPS · 69% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

69%
higher than about 40% of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2168
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 42 examiners with published rates in art unit 2168; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition118 decided applications

82 allowed
36 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.5mo
disposed 38.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.3 mo, disposed 43.1 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
46%
54%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
80%
41%
§103 — Obviousness
83%
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
41%
22%

Interview benefit

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

without
52%
+30 pts
with
82%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 68 decided applications with an interview and 50 without.

ART UNIT 2159
96 APPS · 75% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

75%
higher than about 63% of the 32 examiners with published rates in art unit 2159
AU avg 63%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 32 examiners with published rates in art unit 2159; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition96 decided applications

72 allowed
24 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 33.4mo
disposed 64.7mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.9 mo, disposed 46 mo.

Rejection groundsexaminer ● vs art-unit average ○

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; where an art unit has no computed average for a ground, that row says so rather than showing a comparison.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
55%
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
61%
0%
§103 — Obviousness
82%
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
45%
50%

Interview benefit

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

without
19%
+77 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 70 decided applications with an interview and 26 without.

ART UNIT 2167
68 APPS · 47% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

47%
higher than about 10% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2167
AU avg 67%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2167; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition68 decided applications

32 allowed
36 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 31mo
disposed 53.3mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.5 mo, disposed 41.5 mo.

Rejection grounds

No rejection records for this examiner were retrieved from the USPTO office-action dataset. This is an absence of retrieved data, not a rate of zero.

Interview benefit

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

without
28%
+58 pts
with
86%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 22 decided applications with an interview and 46 without.

ART UNIT 2169
14 APPS · 71% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

71%
higher than about 75% of the 120 examiners with published rates in art unit 2169
AU avg 47%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 120 examiners with published rates in art unit 2169; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition14 decided applications

10 allowed
4 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 28.5mo
disposed 64.7mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 39.8 mo.

Rejection grounds

No rejection records for this examiner were retrieved from the USPTO office-action dataset. This is an absence of retrieved data, not a rate of zero.

ART UNIT 2177
9 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

67%
higher than about 58% of the 53 examiners with published rates in art unit 2177
AU avg 55%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 53 examiners with published rates in art unit 2177; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition9 decided applications

6 allowed
3 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.9mo
disposed 36.3mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.5 mo, disposed 40.2 mo.

Rejection grounds

No rejection records for this examiner were retrieved from the USPTO office-action dataset. This is an absence of retrieved data, not a rate of zero.

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Questions about Examiner Miranda Le

  • What is Miranda Le's overall allowance rate?
    71% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all her art units in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does Miranda Le work in?
    Six art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security).
  • Does her allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 47% to 76% across her art units, reflecting differences in the decided record in each art unit.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Miranda Le 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 August 27, 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: 657 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.

Office actions per allowance. Mailed office actions on the merits — non-final and final — averaged over this examiner's allowed applications. A first-action allowance counts as zero and is included; a notice of allowance is not an office action. The comparison figure is built the same way as the allowance-rate benchmark — from each art unit's own average for this measure — weighted here by this examiner's allowed applications in each art unit, since that is this measure's own denominator. Each art unit's figure is the unweighted mean of its examiners' individual values, so it is the peer-typical figure rather than the art unit's own ratio.

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