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Examiner Nam D Pham

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 941 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
93%vs 74% weighted peer average+19 pts

Examiner Nam D Pham has allowed 876 of 941 decided applications.

876 allowed
Plus 47 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2487 · 93%AU 2482 · 100%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Nam D Pham maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning hundreds of decided applications. The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 93%, meaning that of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), 93% were allowed. This figure aggregates the examiner's record across both art units and reflects historical outcomes on applications that have reached final disposition. The allowance rate does not include pending applications and describes only applications that have been decided.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates outcomes across multiple art units within the same technology center. The 93% allowance rate represents historical data—what occurred across hundreds of past decided applications. Pooled figures describe the examiner's past record and are not predictions about any specific application. Individual art-unit records, where available separately, may show variation from the pooled aggregate.

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The record, art unit by art unit.2 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 2487
987 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

93%
higher than 18 of the 19 examiners with published rates in art unit 2487
AU avg 74%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 19 examiners with published rates in art unit 2487; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 20 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 19 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition940 decided applications

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

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 16.7mo
disposed 24.2mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 18.7 mo, disposed 34.3 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 25
15%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
48%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 77
44%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
15%

Interview benefit

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

without
93%
+2 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 58 decided applications with an interview and 882 without.

ART UNIT 2482
1 APPS · 100% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

100%
higher than about 86% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482
AU avg 66%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2482; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 45 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition1 decided applications

1 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 14.4mo
0
24mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.7 mo, disposed 38.4 mo.
// FAQ

Questions about Examiner Nam D Pham

  • What is Nam D Pham's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 93% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. This means 93% of applications that received a final decision (allowed or abandoned) were allowed.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Nam D Pham's public record spans 2 art units (2482 and 2487) within Technology Center 2400. The 93% figure pools outcomes across both units.
  • Does the 93% allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes the examiner's historical record on past decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual cases depend on claim scope, prior art, and examiner assessment of each application's merits.
  • What does 'decided applications' mean in this record?
    Decided applications are those that have reached final disposition—either allowed or abandoned. Pending applications are excluded from the allowance-rate calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Nam D Pham 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: 988 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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