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Examiner Thai Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 926 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
88%vs 82% weighted peer average+6 pts

Examiner Thai Nguyen has allowed 811 of 926 decided applications.

811 allowed
Plus 48 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (82%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2469 · 89%AU 2458 · 26%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Thai Nguyen maintains a public record across 2 art units in Technology Center 2400. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 88%. This figure reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The record aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units and represents the historical outcome distribution of closed cases.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record combines an examiner's decisions across all their assigned art units into a single aggregate profile. The allowance rate reported here is a summary of past outcomes across those units and does not forecast the result of any specific application. Pooled figures mask variation between individual art units; examination patterns may differ by technology area. This aggregate serves as context for the examiner's historical record only.

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 2469
955 APPS · 89% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

89%
higher than about 62% of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2469
AU avg 82%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 26 examiners with published rates in art unit 2469; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 27 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 26 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition907 decided applications

806 allowed
Plus 48 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.4mo
disposed 31.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 20.9 mo, disposed 34.8 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 24
18%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
64%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 90
84%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
82%

Interview benefit

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

without
84%
+9 pts
with
93%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 493 decided applications with an interview and 414 without.

ART UNIT 2458
19 APPS · 26% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

26%
higher than about 14% of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458
AU avg 59%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 44 examiners with published rates in art unit 2458; 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 44 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition19 decided applications

5 allowed
14 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 30.1mo
disposed 40.6mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.9 mo, disposed 39.5 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Thai Nguyen

  • What is Thai Nguyen's overall allowance rate?
    88% across hundreds of decided applications pooled across all art units. This represents the percentage of closed cases (allowed and abandoned combined) that resulted in allowance.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    Thai Nguyen's public record spans 2 art units in Technology Center 2400.
  • Does the pooled allowance rate apply to my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes the examiner's historical outcome distribution across all decided cases and is not a prediction for any individual application.
  • What is the sample size for this data?
    The allowance rate is calculated across hundreds of decided applications pooled from all of the examiner's art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Thai 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: 974 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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