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Examiner The Hy Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 340 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
76%vs 70% art-unit average+6 pts
higher than about 43% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner The Hy Nguyen has allowed 257 of 340 decided applications.

257 allowed
83 abandoned
Plus 48 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

The Hy Nguyen maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 76%. This figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending cases. The record spans a single art unit, meaning the pooled allowance rate reflects examination activity within that unit's subject matter.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates examination statistics across the examiner's art unit(s). The allowance rate of 76% describes past outcomes on decided applications and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Aggregate figures characterize the examiner's historical record; they do not forecast results in individual cases or reflect how any particular application will be examined.

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 2478
388 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 43% of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478
AU avg 70%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 35 examiners with published rates in art unit 2478; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 36 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 35 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition340 decided applications

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

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 20.2mo
disposed 33.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 24.7 mo, disposed 42.7 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 25
16%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
90%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 89
90%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
56%

Interview benefit

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

without
59%
+30 pts
with
89%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 192 decided applications with an interview and 148 without.

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Questions about Examiner The Hy Nguyen

  • What is The Hy Nguyen's allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 76%, measured as the percentage of allowed applications among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned) across hundreds of cases.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record spans one art unit in Technology Center 2400.
  • What does this allowance rate tell me about my application?
    The pooled allowance rate describes the examiner's historical record and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Individual cases vary based on claim scope, prior art, and other factors unique to each prosecution.
  • Why does the record cover multiple art units?
    The examiner works in one art unit; the pooled record aggregates all decided applications within that unit to create a single historical snapshot.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner The Hy 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: 388 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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