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Examiner Chau D Le

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 611 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2024
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
82%vs 69% weighted peer average+13 pts

Examiner Chau D Le has allowed 503 of 611 decided applications.

503 allowed
108 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (69%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2493 · 84%AU 2447 · 32%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Chau D Le maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across 2 art units. Over hundreds of decided applications, the examiner has issued allowances in 82% of cases. The allowance rate across the examiner's art units ranges from 32% to 84%, reflecting variation in the record by subject matter within the technology center. This pooled figure represents the overall rate of allowance relative to all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's record.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled allowance rate aggregates results across multiple art units and reflects past dispositions on decided applications. This figure describes the examiner's historical record and does not constitute a prediction for any individual application. Variation within the range reflects differences in application outcomes by art unit. Applicants review pooled data as one data point among many factors affecting any particular prosecution.

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 2493
586 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

84%
higher than about 69% of the 32 examiners with published rates in art unit 2493
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 32 examiners with published rates in art unit 2493; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition586 decided applications

495 allowed
91 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.9mo
disposed 31.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23 mo, disposed 36.7 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 43
53%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
45%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 90
61%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
82%
+8 pts
with
90%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 193 decided applications with an interview and 393 without.

ART UNIT 2447
25 APPS · 32% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

32%
higher than about 27% of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2447
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 41 examiners with published rates in art unit 2447; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 43 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 41 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition25 decided applications

8 allowed
17 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 30.7mo
disposed 42mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 37.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Chau D Le

  • What is the overall allowance rate for Chau D Le?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 82% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Chau D Le maintains a record across 2 art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 32% to 84% across the examiner's art units, indicating variation in outcomes by subject matter area.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Chau D Le 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: 611 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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