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Examiner Thu V Huynh

TECH CENTER 2100 · 3 ART UNITS · 593 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
60%vs 54% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Thu V Huynh has allowed 358 of 593 decided applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security.

allowed358abandoned235pending0· pending excluded from the rate
The weighted peer average (54%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 14, 2026
AU 2177 · 52%AU 2178 · 64%AU 2145 · 94%
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What the data says.

Examiner Thu V Huynh maintains a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2100 (Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security). Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's pooled allowance rate is 60%. This rate represents the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the examiner's record. The allowance rate varies across the examiner's art units, ranging from 52% to 94%. This range reflects differences in application outcomes among the individual art units where the examiner has worked, though the pooled 60% figure aggregates all decisions across all three units.

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How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates outcomes from multiple art units into a single overall figure. The 60% allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record across all art units combined and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Allowance rates vary by art unit due to differences in application complexity, subject matter within TC 2100, and case-specific factors. The range (52% to 94%) shows this variation. Any specific application will be examined on its individual merits and facts.

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
344 APPS · 52% ALLOWANCE
52% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 55%
DISPOSITION180 / 164 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION23.9 moart unit avg 22.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY55.4 moart unit avg 40.7 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 eligibility52%art unit 40%+12 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)80%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness93%art unit 90%+3 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness57%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW68%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW30%+38 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 205 decided applications with an interview and 139 without.

ART UNIT 2178
185 APPS · 64% ALLOWANCE
64% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 54%
DISPOSITION118 / 67 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION33.1 moart unit avg 25.5 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY51.9 moart unit avg 41.3 mo
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Allowance rate for applications with an examiner interview versus without one.

WITH INTERVIEW88%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW38%+50 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 97 decided applications with an interview and 88 without.

ART UNIT 2145
64 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE

Primarily examines artificial-intelligence and machine-learning methods.

94% allowance (of decided)▏ art-unit average 53%
DISPOSITION60 / 4 / 0allowed / abandoned / pending
FIRST ACTION29 moart unit avg 26.9 mo
TOTAL PENDENCY38.3 moart unit avg 45.3 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 eligibility53%art unit 45%+8 pts
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)56%no art-unit benchmark
§103 — Obviousness77%art unit 93%16 pts
§112 — Written description & definiteness65%no art-unit benchmark
// INTERVIEW SPLIT

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

WITH INTERVIEW95%allowance share
WITHOUT INTERVIEW91%+4 pt difference

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 42 decided applications with an interview and 22 without.

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Questions about Examiner Thu V Huynh

  • What is Examiner Huynh's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 60%, representing the percentage of allowed decisions among all decided applications across the examiner's art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 3 art units (2145, 2177, 2178) in TC 2100.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 52% to 94% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation in outcomes among different art units.
  • What does this pooled record cover?
    This record aggregates hundreds of decided applications across all the examiner's art units in Technology Center 2100 and is historical data, not a prediction for any individual application.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Thu V Huynh 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: 593 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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