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Examiner Christine Duong Fuqua

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 801 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
85%vs 76% weighted peer average+9 pts

Examiner Christine Duong Fuqua has allowed 681 of 801 decided applications.

681 allowed
120 abandoned
Plus 40 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (76%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2462 · 86%AU 2416 · 64%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Christine Duong Fuqua maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Her pooled allowance rate is 85% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications in her record that were allowed, out of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined). The allowance rate across her art units ranges from 64% to 86%, reflecting variation in outcomes by art-unit assignment. This pooled figure aggregates her work across multiple art-unit areas and does not predict the outcome of any particular application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's decided applications across all assigned art units into a single allowance-rate figure. This overall rate describes past outcomes and reflects the examiner's combined work across different subject areas. The range shows how allowance rates vary among individual art units. These historical figures are descriptive only—they are not predictions about any specific application, and individual cases may resolve differently based on claim scope, prior art, and prosecution history.

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 2462
802 APPS · 86% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

86%
higher than about 81% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2462
AU avg 77%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2462; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition762 decided applications

656 allowed
Plus 40 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.1mo
disposed 32mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.1 mo, disposed 38.3 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 24
23%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
70%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
85%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
33%

Interview benefit

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

without
81%
+13 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 314 decided applications with an interview and 448 without.

ART UNIT 2416
39 APPS · 64% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

64%
higher than about 49% 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.

Disposition39 decided applications

25 allowed
14 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 42.2mo
disposed 60mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Christine Duong Fuqua

  • What is Christine Duong Fuqua's overall allowance rate?
    Her pooled allowance rate is 85% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400, meaning 85% of her decided applications (allowed plus abandoned) were allowed.
  • How many art units does Christine Duong Fuqua work in?
    She has a public record spanning 2 art units in TC 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across her art units?
    Her allowance rates range from 64% to 86% across these art units, showing variation by assignment area.
  • What does this pooled allowance rate tell me about my application?
    This figure describes her historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual cases depend on claim scope, prior art, and prosecution details.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Christine Duong Fuqua 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: 841 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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