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Examiner Phuc H Tran

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 1,103 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
92%vs 86% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Phuc H Tran has allowed 1,014 of 1,103 decided applications.

1,014 allowed
Plus 70 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (86%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2471 · 93%AU 2416 · 81%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Phuc H Tran maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning more than a thousand decided applications. His pooled allowance rate stands at 92%, meaning that of all decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—92% were allowed. The allowance rate ranges from 81% to 93% across these art units, reflecting variation in the mix of applications and outcomes within each unit. This pooled figure represents an aggregate of his record and does not predict outcomes in any individual application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's performance across multiple art units, smoothing variation that exists within any single unit. The overall allowance rate describes historical decisions on applications that reached a final disposition (allowed or abandoned); it is a factual summary of past outcomes, not a forecast of any future application. Range figures show the spread of allowance rates among the examiner's art units and illustrate that outcomes can vary by art unit.

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.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 2471
1,114 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

93%
higher than about 70% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition1,044 decided applications

966 allowed
Plus 70 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.5mo
disposed 33mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 32.5 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 22
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
47%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 71
61%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
43%

Interview benefit

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

without
92%
+2 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 98 decided applications with an interview and 946 without.

ART UNIT 2416
59 APPS · 81% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

81%
higher than about 77% 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.

Disposition59 decided applications

48 allowed
11 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.1mo
disposed 52.2mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Phuc H Tran

  • What is Phuc H Tran's overall allowance rate?
    His pooled allowance rate is 92% across more than a thousand decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Phuc H Tran has a public record spanning 2 art units in TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 81% to 93% across the examiner's art units, reflecting differences in application mix and outcomes within each unit.
  • Does this pooled rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. This figure describes past decisions on applications that reached final disposition and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Phuc H 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: 1,173 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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