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Examiner Tri H Phan

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 950 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUN 2022
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
94%vs 86% weighted peer average+8 pts

Examiner Tri H Phan has allowed 895 of 950 decided applications.

895 allowed
No applications pending.
The weighted peer average (86%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2471 · 94%AU 2416 · 97%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Tri H Phan has a pooled allowance rate of 94% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. The allowance rate ranges from 94% to 97% across these art units. This pooled figure represents the share of allowed applications among all decided (allowed and abandoned) applications in the examiner's record. The range reflects variation in allowance rates by art unit, though all figures remain within a relatively narrow band. This historical record describes past outcomes and is not predictive of any individual application's disposition.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, presenting an overall allowance rate that masks unit-by-unit variation. The 94% figure is a historical summary of all decided applications the examiner has closed, combining results from 2 different art units. Pooled statistics describe past patterns and do not predict the outcome of any specific application. Unit-level detail, where available separately, provides granularity that the aggregate cannot capture.

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 2471
891 APPS · 94% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

94%
higher than about 85% of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471
AU avg 87%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 27 examiners with published rates in art unit 2471; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average.

Disposition891 decided applications

838 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.3mo
disposed 27.1mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.9 mo, disposed 32.5 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 22
22%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
44%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 71
61%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
21%

Interview benefit

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

without
94%
+2 pts
with
96%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 160 decided applications with an interview and 731 without.

ART UNIT 2416
59 APPS · 97% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

97%
higher than about 98% 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.

Disposition59 decided applications

57 allowed
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 34.4mo
disposed 49.4mo
0
60mo
Art-unit average: first action 33.2 mo, disposed 47.8 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 32
50%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
50%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 78
50%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
0%

Interview benefit

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

without
95%
+5 pts
with
100%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 22 decided applications with an interview and 37 without.

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Questions about Examiner Tri H Phan

  • What is Examiner Tri H Phan's overall allowance rate?
    94% of the examiner's decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined) have been allowed across hundreds of decided cases in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record spans 2 art units within TC 2400.
  • Does the allowance rate vary by art unit?
    Yes. The allowance rate ranges from 94% to 97% across the examiner's art units, reflecting differences in outcomes by unit.
  • What does the pooled record mean for my application?
    The pooled figure is a historical average and is not a prediction of any specific application's outcome. Art-unit-specific records, if available separately, may provide more targeted context.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Tri H Phan 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: 950 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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