Examiner Phung M. Chung

Appears inactive Last observed office action: September 2021 (57 months ago).

Examiner Phung M. Chung appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 91.8%, they average 1.41 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §103, with occasional §101 rejections and elevated §112 usage.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.41

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 14 years (2008-2021)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2110 - Computer Error Control, Reliability, and Control Systems

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 693
Granted Applications: 636
Non-Granted Applications: 57
Avg OA / Grant: 1.41
Last OA Observed: September 2021 (57 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2111 , 2117
Work Groups Seen: 2110 - Computer Error Control, Reliability, and Control Systems

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	91.8%	1.41
Art Unit	31	68.2%	1.86
Group	203	68.7%	1.68
Tech Center	1,706	55.9%	2.19
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	47	40	85.1%
2009	61	59	96.7%
2010	60	55	91.7%
2011	40	37	92.5%
2012	62	57	91.9%
2013	60	53	88.3%
2014	48	42	87.5%
2015	54	51	94.4%
2016	42	38	90.5%
2017	45	41	91.1%
2018	58	50	86.2%
2019	50	48	96.0%
2020	39	38	97.4%
2021	27	27	100.0%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	693	7.9%	8.8%	38.7%	34.5%
2	207	22.7%	6.3%	35.3%	25.1%
3	61	29.5%	4.9%	42.6%	18.0%
4	17	29.4%	5.9%	35.3%	17.6%
5	4	25.0%	0.0%	75.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

2019: PEG

10.7%

2008

15.0%

2009

7.7%

2010

6.3%

2011

10.8%

2012

1.4%

2013

1.4%

2014

1.4%

2015

10.1%

2016

31.8%

2017

36.0%

2018

15.8%

2019

17.6%

2020

7.4%

2021

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