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Examiner Tien M Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 251 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION DEC 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
76%vs 52% art-unit average+24 pts
higher than about 77% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423
AU avg 52%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Examiner Tien M Nguyen has allowed 190 of 251 decided applications.

190 allowed
61 abandoned
No applications pending.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Tien M Nguyen maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 across 1 art unit. The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 76% across hundreds of decided applications. This figure represents the percentage of applications that were allowed out of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), with pending applications excluded from the calculation. The 76% rate reflects outcomes on applications that have received final disposition in the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record aggregates all decided applications across the examiner's art units. The allowance rate describes past outcomes and is not a prediction of any specific application's fate. Pooled figures mask variation across different art units and technology areas within the technology center. Individual art-unit records, where available separately, may differ from the pooled average. These statistics are historical and correlational, not causal.

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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 2423
251 APPS · 76% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

76%
higher than about 77% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423
AU avg 52%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2423; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition251 decided applications

190 allowed
61 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 13mo
disposed 30.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 22.1 mo, disposed 39.5 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 34
33%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
80%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 91
91%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
78%

Interview benefit

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

without
51%
+37 pts
with
88%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 170 decided applications with an interview and 81 without.

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Questions about Examiner Tien M Nguyen

  • What is Tien M Nguyen's overall allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 76% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    Tien M Nguyen's public record spans 1 art unit in TC 2400.
  • What does the allowance rate mean?
    The allowance rate is the percentage of applications that were allowed, out of all decided applications (allowed and abandoned). Pending applications are not included in this calculation.
  • Is the pooled rate predictive of my application?
    No. The pooled rate describes historical outcomes and is not a prediction of any individual application. Actual outcomes depend on application-specific facts, claims, and art.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Tien M 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: 251 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.

Lynch LLP is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Examiner statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data.

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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