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Examiner Nghi V Tran

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 82 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION FEB 2012
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
66%vs 65% art-unit average+1 pt
higher than about 37% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Nghi V Tran has allowed 54 of 82 decided applications.

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

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Nghi V Tran's public record in Technology Center 2400 spans one art unit. Across dozens of decided applications, the examiner issued allowances in 66% of cases. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The 66% allowance rate reflects the examiner's historical record on applications that reached a final disposition.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates examination history across the examiner's art unit(s) in TC 2400. The allowance rate describes past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's result. Pooled figures smooth variation across different art units and technology areas within the technology center. Individual application outcomes depend on claim scope, prior art, and prosecution strategy.

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 2451
82 APPS · 66% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

66%
higher than about 37% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451
AU avg 65%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2451; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition82 decided applications

54 allowed
28 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 34.7mo
disposed 65.4mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.8 mo, disposed 43.5 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 43
67%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
22%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 83
56%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
11%
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Questions about Examiner Nghi V Tran

  • What is Examiner Tran's overall allowance rate?
    Across dozens of decided applications in Technology Center 2400, the examiner allowed 66% of applications that reached final disposition (allowed or abandoned).
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    This pooled record covers one art unit and reflects the examiner's combined examination history within that unit.
  • What does the 66% rate mean for my application?
    The 66% rate is a historical average and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application's result depends on its individual claims, prior art, and prosecution facts.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Nghi V Tran 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: 82 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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