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Examiner Toan D Nguyen

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 455 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION NOV 2017
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
86%vs 79% weighted peer average+7 pts

Examiner Toan D Nguyen has allowed 390 of 455 decided applications.

390 allowed
65 abandoned
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (79%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2472 · 86%AU 2416 · 82%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Toan D Nguyen has a pooled allowance rate of 86% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 82% to 86% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of decided applications—those allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications. The range reflects variation in outcomes across the examiner's different art-unit assignments within the technology center.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates an examiner's performance across multiple art units into a single figure. The overall allowance rate describes past decisions on applications that were allowed or abandoned, and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. The range shown reflects differences in allowance rates among the examiner's individual art units. Pooled statistics provide a general view of examiner history but do not account for application-specific factors.

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 2472
389 APPS · 86% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

86%
higher than about 42% of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472
AU avg 83%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 45 examiners with published rates in art unit 2472; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 47 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 45 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition389 decided applications

336 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 23mo
disposed 38.4mo
0
48mo
Art-unit average: first action 23.3 mo, disposed 35.1 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 22
24%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
55%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 82
93%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
26%

Interview benefit

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

without
81%
+13 pts
with
94%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 155 decided applications with an interview and 234 without.

ART UNIT 2416
66 APPS · 82% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

82%
higher than about 79% of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416
AU avg 58%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 144 examiners with published rates in art unit 2416; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 146 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 144 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition66 decided applications

54 allowed
12 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 41.4mo
disposed 68.1mo
0
72mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 mo.

Interview benefit

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

without
55%
+40 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 44 decided applications with an interview and 22 without.

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Questions about Examiner Toan D Nguyen

  • What is Examiner Toan D Nguyen's allowance rate?
    The examiner's pooled allowance rate is 86% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner cover?
    The examiner's record spans 2 art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary across art units?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 82% to 86% across the examiner's art units.
  • What does this allowance rate mean for my application?
    The pooled allowance rate is a historical aggregate and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Application-specific factors determine individual results.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Toan D 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: 455 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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