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Examiner Tri Minh Tran

TECH CENTER 2400 · 2 ART UNITS · 655 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 2 ART UNITS
84%vs 72% weighted peer average+12 pts

Examiner Tri Minh Tran has allowed 553 of 655 decided applications.

553 allowed
102 abandoned
Plus 24 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
The weighted peer average (72%) is each art unit's average below, weighted by this examiner's applications in it (2 art units).
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026
AU 2494 · 78%AU 2432 · 93%

What the data says.reading this examiner

Examiner Tri Minh Tran maintains a pooled allowance rate of 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400. The examiner's record spans 2 art units. Allowance rates across these art units range from 78% to 93%, reflecting variation in the outcomes recorded within each unit's decided applications. This pooled figure represents the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications—those marked allowed or abandoned—and does not include pending applications.

How to read these numbers.

A pooled record aggregates data across multiple art units, producing an overall allowance rate that describes past outcomes rather than forecasting any specific application. The range shown reflects differences in allowance rates among individual art units. Pooled figures smooth variation but do not predict results in any particular art unit or case. Historical rates describe what occurred; they are not predictive of future prosecution outcomes.

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 2494
369 APPS · 78% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

78%
higher than about 35% of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2494
AU avg 76%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 31 examiners with published rates in art unit 2494; 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.

Disposition369 decided applications

288 allowed
81 abandoned
No applications pending.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.1mo
disposed 34.1mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 21.1 mo, disposed 36.3 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 37
40%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
71%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
88%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
31%

Interview benefit

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

without
54%
+41 pts
with
95%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 218 decided applications with an interview and 151 without.

ART UNIT 2432
310 APPS · 93% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

93%
higher than about 85% of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432
AU avg 68%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 47 examiners with published rates in art unit 2432; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 48 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 47 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition286 decided applications

265 allowed
Plus 24 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 19.1mo
disposed 27.7mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 26.5 mo, disposed 42.6 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 37
42%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
84%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 81
80%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
32%

Interview benefit

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

without
82%
+15 pts
with
97%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 201 decided applications with an interview and 85 without.

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Questions about Examiner Tri Minh Tran

  • What is Examiner Tran's overall allowance rate?
    The pooled allowance rate is 84% across hundreds of decided applications in Technology Center 2400.
  • How many art units does this record cover?
    The record covers 2 art units, pooled together in this overall profile.
  • What is the range of allowance rates across the art units?
    Allowance rates range from 78% to 93% across these art units.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Tri Minh Tran 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: 679 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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