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Examiner Thanh H Le

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 262 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
83%vs 75% weighted peer average+8 pts

Examiner Thanh H Le has allowed 218 of 262 decided applications.

218 allowed
44 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (75%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2434 · 88%AU 2432 · 65%AU 2494 · 83%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Thanh H Le has a public record across 3 art units in Technology Center 2400, spanning hundreds of decided applications. The overall allowance rate is 83%, representing the share of decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) in the pooled record. Allowance rates across the individual art units range from 65% to 88%. This pooled figure aggregates the examiner's record across multiple art units and describes past outcomes; it is not a prediction for any particular application.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates allowance data across multiple art units, creating a single figure that reflects the examiner's overall history. The 83% allowance rate is a historical summary of decided applications across all three art units the examiner has worked in TC 2400. Because different art units may have different subject matter and procedural characteristics, the range (65% to 88%) shows variation among those units. The aggregate percentage describes the past record only and is not predictive of any individual application's outcome.

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.3 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 2434
208 APPS · 88% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

88%
higher than about 71% of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2434
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 38 examiners with published rates in art unit 2434; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 41 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 38 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition208 decided applications

182 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 15.4mo
disposed 27.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 41.8 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 39
46%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
74%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
93%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
38%

Interview benefit

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

without
83%
+11 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 86 decided applications with an interview and 122 without.

ART UNIT 2432
48 APPS · 65% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

65%
higher than about 38% of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 47 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition48 decided applications

31 allowed
17 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 17.4mo
disposed 34.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 42.6 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
32%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
74%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
81%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
47%

Based on 48 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

ART UNIT 2494
6 APPS · 83% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

83%
higher than about 55% 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.

Disposition6 decided applications

5 allowed
1 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.9mo
disposed 56.2mo
0
60mo
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
17%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
83%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
100%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
67%

Based on 6 applications — too small a sample to characterize the rejection mix reliably; shown for completeness.

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Questions about Examiner Thanh H Le

  • What is Examiner Thanh H Le's overall allowance rate?
    The overall allowance rate is 83% across hundreds of decided applications pooled from all art units in which the examiner has worked.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner has a public record across 3 art units (2432, 2434, 2494) in Technology Center 2400.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the art units?
    Allowance rates range from 65% to 88% across the examiner's art units. The pooled figure of 83% reflects the combined record.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. The 83% figure is a historical summary of past decided applications 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 Thanh H Le 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: 262 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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