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Examiner An Son Phi Huynh

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 572 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION MAR 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
53%vs 62% weighted peer average9 pts

Examiner An Son Phi Huynh has allowed 302 of 572 decided applications.

302 allowed
270 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (62%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2426 · 55%AU 2424 · 41%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner An Son Phi Huynh's pooled record in Technology Center 2400 spans 2 art units with an allowance rate of 53% across hundreds of decided applications. This allowance rate represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's record. The allowance rate ranges from 41% to 55% across the examiner's art units, reflecting variation in outcomes within this technology center. The pooled figure of 53% aggregates results across these different art units and describes the historical record only.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines results across multiple art units into a single aggregate allowance rate. That aggregate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. The range shows variation among individual art units; examining the per-art-unit breakdown may provide additional context. Pooled data are useful for understanding an examiner's overall patterns but do not forecast results in any particular 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 →

The record, art unit by art unit.2 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 2426
480 APPS · 55% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

55%
higher than about 30% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2426
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2426; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition480 decided applications

264 allowed
216 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 14.6mo
disposed 38mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.8 mo, disposed 39 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; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
AU 29
41%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
80%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
61%

Interview benefit

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

without
22%
+46 pts
with
68%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 344 decided applications with an interview and 136 without.

ART UNIT 2424
92 APPS · 41% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

41%
higher than about 21% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424
AU avg 63%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2424; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition92 decided applications

38 allowed
54 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 37.6mo
disposed 68.5mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.5 mo, disposed 42.1 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; §102 and §112 carry no art-unit benchmark.

§101 — Subject-matter eligibility
AU 27
42%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
83%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 85
83%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
58%

Interview benefit

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

without
19%
+51 pts
with
70%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 40 decided applications with an interview and 52 without.

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Questions about Examiner An Son Phi Huynh

  • What is Examiner Huynh's overall allowance rate?
    53% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units in TC 2400. Allowance rate is the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    2 art units (2424 and 2426) in Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the art units?
    Allowance rates range from 41% to 55% across the examiner's art units.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate predict my application's outcome?
    No. The 53% figure is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any individual application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner An Son Phi Huynh has a public record within Technology Center 2400. Statistics are computed from publicly available USPTO records, refreshed on a recurring schedule. This page's data was last updated July 22, 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: 572 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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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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