Examiner Ngoclan T. Mai

Appears inactive Last observed office action: May 2018 (96 months ago).

Examiner Ngoclan T. Mai appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 78.8%, they average 1.55 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.55

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 1700 - Chemical and Materials Engineering
Group: 1730 - Metallurgy, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 510
Granted Applications: 402
Non-Granted Applications: 108
Avg OA / Grant: 1.55
Last OA Observed: May 2018 (96 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 1733 , 1793
Work Groups Seen: 1730 - Metallurgy, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography

1790 - Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	78.8%	1.55
Art Unit	30	54.0%	2.02
Group	185	51.5%	1.97
Tech Center	1,713	47.3%	2.14
USPTO	16,116	54.8%	1.98

Grant Timeline

Shaded region marks the last two observed years, where grant outcomes may lag due to recency.

Year	Applications	Granted	Grant Rate
No observed data before 2008; examiner may not yet have been active in the available dataset.
2008	37	28	75.7%
2009	54	39	72.2%
2010	27	20	74.1%
2011	43	36	83.7%
2012	48	33	68.8%
2013	53	39	73.6%
2014	66	49	74.2%
2015	63	53	84.1%
2016	54	46	85.2%
2017	63	57	90.5%
2018	2	2	100.0%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

402 family-cache-validated grants; 0 OA-only grant signals.

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	525	0.2%	11.6%	69.9%	9.3%
2	220	0.5%	11.8%	75.0%	10.9%
3	62	1.6%	12.9%	67.7%	11.3%
4	17	0.0%	17.6%	76.5%	5.9%
5	4	0.0%	50.0%	25.0%	25.0%
6	2	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

0.0%

2008

0.0%

2009

2.3%

2010

0.0%

2011

1.1%

2012

0.0%

2013

0.0%

2014

0.0%

2015

0.0%

2016

1.0%

2017

0.0%

2018

Each bar shows the share of this examiner's observed office actions in that year that included a § 101 rejection.