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Examiner Thu Nguyet T Le

TECH CENTER 2100 · 2 ART UNITS · 630 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
79%vs 66% weighted peer average+13 pts

Examiner Thu Nguyet T Le has allowed 500 of 630 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed500abandoned130pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (66%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2162 · 79%AU 2169 · 67%
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What the data says.

Thu Nguyet T Le maintains a public record across 2 art units within Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 79% over hundreds of decided applications. This rate reflects the share of applications allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) across both art units. The pooled figure aggregates the examiner's work across different subject areas within TC 2100 and represents the historical record of dispositions on applications examined.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines data from multiple art units into a single aggregate figure. The 79% allowance rate is a historical measure of outcomes across all decided applications in this examiner's record—it is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual art-unit records may differ from the pooled total. Pooled statistics describe what occurred in the past, not what will occur in any pending or future case.

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 2162
627 APPS · 79% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

79% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 66%
DISPOSITION498 / 129 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION22.6 moart unit avg 23.2 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY39.2 moart unit avg 41.8 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 eligibility55%art unit 56%1 pt
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)63%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness75%art unit 79%4 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness55%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW89%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW70%+19 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 310 decided applications with an interview and 317 without.

ART UNIT 2169
3 APPS · 67% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Primarily examines information retrieval and database structures.

67% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 47%
DISPOSITION2 / 1 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION26.9 moart unit avg 24.8 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY32.5 moart unit avg 40 mo
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Questions about Examiner Thu Nguyet T Le

  • What is examiner Thu Nguyet T Le's allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 79%, calculated as the share of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across the examiner's record in TC 2100.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner works across 2 art units (2162 and 2169) within Technology Center 2100.
  • What does the pooled record include?
    The pooled record aggregates all decided applications across both art units. It is a historical snapshot and is not a prediction of any individual application's outcome.
  • How large is the sample size?
    The 79% allowance rate is based on hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Thu Nguyet T 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 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: 630 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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