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Examiner Vanneilian Lalchinthang

TECH CENTER 2400 · 1 ART UNIT · 456 DECIDED APPLICATIONS · LAST ACTION JUL 2026
ALLOWANCE RATE = SHARE OF DECIDED APPLICATIONS (ALLOWED + ABANDONED); PENDING EXCLUDED
OVERALL ALLOWANCE RATE · POOLED ACROSS 1 ART UNIT
80%vs 85% art-unit average5 pts
higher than about 17% of the 23 examiners with published rates in art unit 2414
AU avg 85%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 23 examiners with published rates in art unit 2414; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 25 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 23 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Examiner Vanneilian Lalchinthang has allowed 366 of 456 decided applications.

366 allowed
90 abandoned
Plus 45 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.
DATA UPDATED JULY 22, 2026

What the data says.reading this examiner

Vanneilian Lalchinthang maintains a public record in Technology Center 2400 spanning one art unit. Across hundreds of decided applications, the examiner's allowance rate is 80%. This rate reflects the share of applications that were allowed among all decided applications (allowed and abandoned combined), excluding pending matters. The record aggregates dispositions across the examiner's assigned art units and represents the historical distribution of outcomes in examined applications within this technology center.

How to read these numbers.

This pooled record combines data across all art units where the examiner has decided applications. The allowance rate and art-unit count describe past outcomes only and are not predictions about any specific application. Aggregate statistics reflect historical patterns across diverse application types and do not indicate how any individual case will be examined or resolved. The record serves as context for understanding examiner activity, not as a forecast.

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 2414
501 APPS · 80% ALLOWANCE

Allowance ratewhere this examiner sits among peers

80%
higher than about 17% of the 23 examiners with published rates in art unit 2414
AU avg 85%
0%
100%
Each short mark is one of the 23 examiners with published rates in art unit 2414; the dot is this examiner. The tick is the art-unit average, computed across all 25 examiners in the unit — a broader group than the 23 published marks, so it can sit apart from them.

Disposition456 decided applications

366 allowed
90 abandoned
Plus 45 applications still pending — not yet decided, so excluded from the rate.

Pendencymonths from filing

filed
first action 18.7mo
disposed 33.8mo
0
36mo
Art-unit average: first action 19.9 mo, disposed 30.9 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
20%
§102 — Anticipation (novelty)
no AU benchmark
32%
§103 — Obviousness
AU 88
98%
§112 — Written description & definiteness
no AU benchmark
41%

Interview benefit

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

without
74%
+14 pts
with
88%

A correlation, not proof that interviews cause allowances. Based on 210 decided applications with an interview and 246 without.

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Questions about Examiner Vanneilian Lalchinthang

  • What is this examiner's overall allowance rate?
    The allowance rate is 80%, calculated as the percentage of decided applications (allowed and abandoned) that were allowed, pooled across all art units.
  • How many art units does this examiner work in?
    The examiner's public record covers one art unit within Technology Center 2400.
  • How many applications are included in this record?
    The pooled decided-application set comprises hundreds of applications. Specific counts of decided, allowed, and abandoned applications appear in the page's data tables.
  • Does this allowance rate predict the outcome of my application?
    No. Aggregate historical rates are not predictions of any specific application. Each application is examined individually on its merits.
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METHODOLOGY & DISCLOSURES

Methodology. This page pools every art unit in which Examiner Vanneilian Lalchinthang 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: 501 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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