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Examiner Liem Hong Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 267 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
76%vs 58% art-unit average+18 pts
higher than about 65% 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.

Examiner Liem Hong Nguyen has allowed 202 of 267 decided applications.

202 allowed
65 abandoned
Plus 43 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Liem Hong Nguyen's public record in Technology Center 2400 spans one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 76%. This rate reflects the share of applications that issued as allowed or were abandoned, excluding pending matters. The 76% allowance rate represents the examiner's pooled record across all art units in this technology center and describes the historical outcome distribution without predicting results on any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across all art units assigned to an examiner. The allowance rate shown—76%—combines outcomes from all of TC 2400's art units into a single figure. This aggregate describes the examiner's past record only. It is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual applications may resolve differently based on claim scope, prior art, and examination 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.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 2416
310 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 65% 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.

Disposition267 decided applications

202 allowed
65 abandoned
Plus 43 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 21.1mo
disposed 34.6mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 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
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
98%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
66%

Interview benefit

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

without
61%
+23 pts
with
84%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 171 decided applications with an interview and 96 without.

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Questions about Examiner Liem Hong Nguyen

  • What is Liem Hong Nguyen's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 76%, measured as a share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) pooled across all art units in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Liem Hong Nguyen's record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • What does a 76% allowance rate mean?
    Of the hundreds of decided applications in this examiner's pooled record, 76% resulted in allowance or abandonment. This describes the past record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
  • Does this record apply to my application?
    The pooled record describes past outcomes across all of the examiner's art units. Individual applications depend on specific claims, prior art, and examination conduct, and may resolve differently from the aggregate rate.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Liem Hong Nguyen 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: 310 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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