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Examiner Lam H Duong

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 79 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2021
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
65%vs 69% art-unit average4 pts
higher than about 38% 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.

Examiner Lam H Duong has allowed 51 of 79 decided applications.

51 allowed
28 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Lam H Duong maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 65 percent. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications—those marked allowed or abandoned—in the examiner's pooled record. The allowance rate is calculated from applications with final dispositions and does not include pending applications. The record reflects historical outcomes and provides a baseline description of examination activity within this technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates examination activity across the examiner's art unit assignments within TC 2400. Pooled figures describe past outcomes across multiple art units combined and reflect the examiner's historical record as a whole. An aggregate allowance rate is a statistical summary of closed applications and is not a prediction about the outcome of any specific application. Individual art units may have different allowance rates; detailed per-art-unit information appears separately on this page.

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The record, art unit by art unit.1 art unit

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
79 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

65%
higher than about 38% 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.

Disposition79 decided applications

51 allowed
28 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.9mo
disposed 38.3mo
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
41%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
69%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 87
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
64%

Interview benefit

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

without
39%
+44 pts
with
83%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 46 decided applications with an interview and 33 without.

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Questions about Examiner Lam H Duong

  • What is Examiner Duong's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate across all decided applications is 65 percent, representing the share of applications allowed among all applications with final dispositions (allowed or abandoned).
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Examiner Lam H Duong's record spans one art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • How large is the sample size for these figures?
    The allowance rate is calculated across dozens of decided applications in the examiner's pooled record.
  • Does the allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical summary and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application is examined individually on its merits.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Lam H Duong 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: 79 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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