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Examiner Duyen My Doan

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 745 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
83%vs 66% weighted peer average+17 pts

Examiner Duyen My Doan has allowed 615 of 745 decided applications.

615 allowed
130 abandoned
Plus 29 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (66%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2452 · 78%AU 2459 · 98%AU 2447 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Duyen My Doan maintains a pooled allowance rate of 83% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 3 art units. The allowance rate—the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed—ranges from 78% to 98% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the examiner's aggregate performance and reflects applications disposed of in the technology center; it is neither predictive of nor binding on any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units within Technology Center 2400. The overall allowance rate is a historical summary of decided applications and does not forecast the outcome of any specific application or art unit. Pooled figures mask variation: individual art units may have allowance rates materially different from the aggregate. The range provided (78% to 98%) illustrates that spread. Historical data describes past examiner action only.

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 2452
566 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

78%
higher than about 53% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2452
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2452; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition566 decided applications

439 allowed
127 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.8mo
disposed 36.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.2 mo, disposed 42.7 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 44
31%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
52%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
77%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
40%

Interview benefit

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

without
73%
+13 pts
with
86%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 183 decided applications with an interview and 383 without.

ART UNIT 2459
207 APPS · 98% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

98%
higher than about 92% of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2459
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 24 examiners with published rates in art unit 2459; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition178 decided applications

175 allowed
Plus 29 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.6mo
disposed 24.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.3 mo, disposed 35.7 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 39
25%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
60%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
76%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
46%

Interview benefit

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

without
98%
±0 pts
with
98%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 66 decided applications with an interview and 112 without.

ART UNIT 2447
1 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 83% 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.

Disposition1 decided applications

1 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.6 mo, disposed 37.4 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 35
0%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
100%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 84
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Based on 1 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Duyen My Doan

  • What is Examiner Doan's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 83% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Doan's record spans 3 art units within Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 78% to 98% across the examiner's art units. Individual art units may vary materially from the pooled 83% figure.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Duyen My Doan 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: 774 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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