Examiner Duc T. Doan

Appears inactive Last observed office action: July 2018 (94 months ago).

Examiner Duc T. Doan appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 80.9%, they average 1.84 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 1.84

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 2100 - Computer Architecture Software and Information Security
Group: 2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 465
Granted Applications: 376
Non-Granted Applications: 89
Avg OA / Grant: 1.84
Last OA Observed: July 2018 (94 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2135 , 2185 , 2188
Work Groups Seen: 2130 - Memory Access and Control

2180 - Computer Architecture, I/O, Modeling and Simulation

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	80.9%	1.84
Art Unit	13	71.4%	1.87
Group	169	56.0%	1.88
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	35	23	65.7%
2009	59	39	66.1%
2010	53	44	83.0%
2011	45	38	84.4%
2012	40	34	85.0%
2013	48	45	93.8%
2014	41	34	82.9%
2015	36	31	86.1%
2016	48	34	70.8%
2017	46	41	89.1%
2018	14	13	92.9%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	472	0.6%	3.2%	85.6%	7.2%
2	240	2.5%	4.6%	77.5%	10.0%
3	111	0.0%	0.0%	87.4%	10.8%
4	53	0.0%	0.0%	83.0%	15.1%
5	21	0.0%	0.0%	90.5%	9.5%
6	11	0.0%	0.0%	90.9%	9.1%
7	8	0.0%	0.0%	87.5%	12.5%
8	5	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
9	2	0.0%	0.0%	50.0%	50.0%
10	1	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

1.2%

2008

1.4%

2009

1.1%

2010

0.0%

2011

1.3%

2012

0.0%

2013

1.2%

2014

2.5%

2015

0.0%

2016

1.1%

2017

0.0%

2018

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