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Examiner Ngoc Thach D Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 131 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION OCT 2017
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
56%vs 76% art-unit average20 pts
higher than about 10% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2494
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2494; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Ngoc Thach D Nguyen has allowed 73 of 131 decided applications.

73 allowed
58 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Ngoc Thach D Nguyen maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400, spanning 1 art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 56%. This rate reflects the percentage of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The allowance rate represents the examiner's historical record in this technology center and does not vary across the examiner's art units.

How to read these numbers.

This record aggregates the examiner's decisions across all assigned art units in TC 2400. The pooled allowance rate describes past disposition patterns and is correlational data reflecting historical outcomes. Aggregate figures do not constitute a prediction for any individual application and do not account for application-specific factors, claim scope, or prosecution history. Each application receives independent examination.

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 2494
131 APPS · 56% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

56%
higher than about 10% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2494
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2494; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 32 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 31 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition131 decided applications

73 allowed
58 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 24.8mo
disposed 42.6mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.1 mo, disposed 36.3 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 37
50%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
57%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
96%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
54%

Interview benefit

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

without
44%
+30 pts
with
74%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 50 decided applications with an interview and 81 without.

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Questions about Examiner Ngoc Thach D Nguyen

  • What is Ngoc Thach D Nguyen's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's allowance rate is 56%, representing allowed applications as a share of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across hundreds of cases in TC 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 1 art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Each application is examined independently based on the claims, prior art, and prosecution record.
  • What does the allowance rate include and exclude?
    The 56% rate includes only decided applications (those allowed or abandoned). Pending applications are excluded from this calculation.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Ngoc Thach D 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: 131 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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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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