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Examiner Meng Vang

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 341 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
79%vs 72% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Meng Vang has allowed 271 of 341 decided applications.

271 allowed
70 abandoned
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (72%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2443 · 88%AU 2457 · 69%AU 2472 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Meng Vang maintains a public record across 3 art units within Technology Center 2400, with a pooled allowance rate of 79% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's record, pooled across all art units. The allowance rate ranges from 69% to 88% across these art units, reflecting variation in the decided application populations and outcomes within individual units. This pooled snapshot describes the examiner's past record and does not predict the outcome of any specific application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data from multiple art units into a single overall figure. The 79% allowance rate combines decided applications from all 3 art units. This aggregate represents the examiner's historical record and is descriptive only—it does not forecast the result of any particular application. Individual art units may show different rates; consult the per-unit detail section for art-unit-specific records.

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 2443
216 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

88%
higher than about 69% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443
AU avg 69%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2443; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition169 decided applications

148 allowed
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 14.9mo
disposed 26.1mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.1 mo, disposed 40.7 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 37
39%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
97%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
62%

Interview benefit

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

without
78%
+18 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 92 decided applications with an interview and 77 without.

ART UNIT 2457
159 APPS · 69% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

69%
higher than about 18% of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2457
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 39 examiners with published rates in art unit 2457; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 40 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 39 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition159 decided applications

110 allowed
49 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.8mo
disposed 42.5mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 39.3 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 39
71%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
99%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 73
97%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
74%

Interview benefit

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

without
49%
+34 pts
with
83%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 94 decided applications with an interview and 65 without.

ART UNIT 2472
13 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 76% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472
AU avg 83%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 47 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 45 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition13 decided applications

13 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.9mo
disposed 33.4mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.3 mo, disposed 35.1 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 22
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
90%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
80%

Based on 13 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Meng Vang

  • What is Meng Vang's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 79%, representing the share of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across the examiner's record in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Meng Vang has a public record spanning 3 art units within Technology Center 2400: 2443, 2457, and 2472.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across art units?
    The allowance rate ranges from 69% to 88% across the examiner's art units, reflecting differences in application populations and outcomes by unit. See the per-unit section for unit-specific figures.
  • How large is this record?
    The pooled record spans hundreds of decided applications, pooled across all art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Meng Vang 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: 388 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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