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Examiner Le Hien Luu

TECH CENTER 2400 · 4 ART UNITS · 1,017 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2025
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 4 ART UNITS
90%vs 59% weighted peer average+31 pts

Examiner Le Hien Luu has allowed 917 of 1,017 decided applications.

917 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (59%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (4 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2448 · 89%AU 2446 · 98%AU 2454 · 84%AU 2441 · 94%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Patent Examiner Le Hien Luu maintains a pooled allowance rate of 90% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 4 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 84% to 98% across these art units, reflecting variation in the examiner's decided applications by subject matter within the technology center. This pooled figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed, measured against all decided applications (allowed and abandoned); pending applications are excluded from the calculation.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's allowance rates across multiple art units into a single overall figure. This aggregate reflects historical outcomes across diverse subject areas and does not function as a prediction for any particular application. The range shown indicates that allowance rates vary among the examiner's individual art units. Pooled statistics describe past record; individual application outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and examination facts specific to each case.

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.4 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 2448
726 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

89%
higher than about 94% of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2448
AU avg 56%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 34 examiners with published rates in art unit 2448; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition726 decided applications

647 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18mo
disposed 27.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.7 mo, disposed 46.1 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 33
35%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
69%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
25%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
11%

Interview benefit

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

without
88%
+6 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 125 decided applications with an interview and 601 without.

ART UNIT 2446
160 APPS · 98% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

98%
higher than about 91% of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446
AU avg 62%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 43 examiners with published rates in art unit 2446; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition160 decided applications

157 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.4mo
disposed 21mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 26 mo, disposed 41.9 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
41%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
47%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 76
17%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
19%

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 28 decided applications with an interview and 132 without.

ART UNIT 2454
98 APPS · 84% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

84%
higher than about 61% of the 57 examiners with published rates in art unit 2454
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 57 examiners with published rates in art unit 2454; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 58 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 57 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition98 decided applications

82 allowed
16 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 27.6mo
disposed 39.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.8 mo, disposed 40.6 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 41
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
67%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
33%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Interview benefit

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

without
76%
+21 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 36 decided applications with an interview and 62 without.

ART UNIT 2441
33 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

94%
higher than about 97% of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2441
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 37 examiners with published rates in art unit 2441; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition33 decided applications

31 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 25.8mo
disposed 36.9mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.1 mo, disposed 40.1 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Le Hien Luu

  • What is Examiner Le Hien Luu's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 90% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 4 art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 84% to 98% across the examiner's art units, showing variation by subject matter within the technology center.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Le Hien Luu 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: 1,017 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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