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Examiner Thanhnga B Truong

TECH CENTER 2400 · 3 ART UNITS · 697 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION APR 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 3 ART UNITS
89%vs 74% weighted peer average+15 pts

Examiner Thanhnga B Truong has allowed 618 of 697 decided applications.

618 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (74%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (3 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2438 · 87%AU 2498 · 93%AU 2435 · 80%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Patent Examiner Thanhnga B Truong maintains a pooled allowance rate of 89% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 3 art units: 2435, 2438, and 2498. Allowance rates across these art units range from 87% to 93%, reflecting variation in the examiner's decided applications within the technology center. This aggregate figure represents applications that have been allowed or abandoned; pending applications are excluded from the calculation.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates the examiner's work across multiple art units within TC 2400. The overall allowance rate of 89% describes the examiner's historical record on decided applications and is not a prediction of the outcome of any specific application. Individual art units may show different rates; the range reflects this variation. Aggregate statistics describe past performance only and do not forecast results in any particular matter.

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 2438
454 APPS · 87% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

87%
higher than about 86% of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 28 examiners with published rates in art unit 2438; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition454 decided applications

393 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23mo
disposed 39.1mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.7 mo, disposed 38.3 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 52
56%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
38%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 86
76%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
43%

Interview benefit

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

without
83%
+12 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 138 decided applications with an interview and 316 without.

ART UNIT 2498
228 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

93%
higher than about 81% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2498
AU avg 73%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2498; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 28 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 27 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition228 decided applications

213 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.8mo
disposed 28.5mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19 mo, disposed 36.2 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 47
44%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
70%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 90
75%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
31%

Interview benefit

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

without
92%
+3 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 104 decided applications with an interview and 124 without.

ART UNIT 2435
15 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE · LIMITED DATA

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 48% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435
AU avg 75%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2435; 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.

Disposition15 decided applications

12 allowed
3 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 38.6mo
disposed 65.8mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 25.8 mo, disposed 41.4 mo.
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Questions about Examiner Thanhnga B Truong

  • What is Examiner Thanhnga B Truong's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 89% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's public record spans 3 art units: 2435, 2438, and 2498.
  • Do allowance rates vary across this examiner's art units?
    Yes. Allowance rates range from 87% to 93% across the examiner's art units in TC 2400.
  • Is the overall allowance rate a prediction for my application?
    No. The aggregate rate describes the examiner's historical record on 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 Thanhnga B Truong 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: 697 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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