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Examiner Brian D Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 1,526 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
93%vs 79% weighted peer average+14 pts

Examiner Brian D Nguyen has allowed 1,417 of 1,526 decided applications.

1,417 allowed
Plus 48 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (79%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2472 · 91%AU 2475 · 98%AU 2416 · 85%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Brian D Nguyen maintains a public record across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400, spanning three art units. His pooled allowance rate is 93%, meaning that of his decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), 93% were allowed. The allowance rate varies across his art units, ranging from 85% to 98%. This record reflects the aggregate outcome of applications examined across multiple art units and represents historical data only, not a prediction for any individual pending application.

How to read these numbers.

This profile aggregates Brian D Nguyen's examination record across three art units in TC 2400. The pooled allowance rate of 93% is a historical average computed from all his decided applications combined. Because the record spans multiple art units with different subject matter, the aggregate figure masks variation among those units—as shown by the 85% to 98% range. Pooled statistics describe past outcomes and are not predictive of any specific application's disposition.

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.3 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 2472
1,080 APPS · 91% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

91%
higher than about 62% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472
AU avg 83%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 47 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 45 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition1,080 decided applications

988 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.7mo
disposed 26.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.3 mo, disposed 35.1 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 22
15%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
51%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
55%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
49%

Interview benefit

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

without
90%
+6 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 224 decided applications with an interview and 856 without.

ART UNIT 2475
428 APPS · 98% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

98%
higher than about 83% of the 40 examiners with published rates in art unit 2475
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 40 examiners with published rates in art unit 2475; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition380 decided applications

373 allowed
Plus 48 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 22.3mo
disposed 32.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.6 mo, disposed 38.1 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 22
19%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
57%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
56%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
51%

Interview benefit

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

without
98%
+2 pts
with
100%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 99 decided applications with an interview and 281 without.

ART UNIT 2416
66 APPS · 85% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

85%
higher than about 86% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition66 decided applications

56 allowed
10 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 33.9mo
disposed 51.8mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 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 32
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
0%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
0%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Interview benefit

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

without
78%
+18 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 26 decided applications with an interview and 40 without.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Brian D Nguyen

  • What is Brian D Nguyen's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 93% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This figure represents the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed.
  • How many art units does he examine in?
    Brian D Nguyen's public record spans three art units within TC 2400.
  • Does his allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 85% to 98% across his art units. The pooled figure of 93% is an aggregate across all three units combined.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Brian D Nguyen 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: 1,574 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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