Examiner Thai Nguyen

Grant ratio: 79.2% (69th percentile in Art Unit 2469 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.96. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 79.2%
Average office actions / grant 1.96
Compared with Art unit About average
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
86366
Primary art unit
2469
Work group
2460
Technology center
2400
Applications
816
Granted applications
646
Examiner phone
(571) 270-7632
Supervisor
Ian N Moore
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-3085

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 23 69.0% 1.88
Group 225 60.1% 2.07
Tech Center 1,754 58.4% 2.14
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.96 1,600 office actions across 816 applications
Applications with office actions 99.9% 815 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.1%
1 OA 430 52.7%
2 OAs 186 22.8%
3 OAs 88 10.8%
4 OAs 55 6.7%
5+ OAs 56 6.9%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2009: 31.6% 2009 2010: 53.8% 2010 2011: 78.3% 2011 2012: 77.5% 2012 2013: 89.2% 2013 2014: 83.3% 2014 2015: 90.0% 2015 2016: 88.9% 2016 2017: 91.8% 2017 2018: 79.7% 2018 2019: 90.3% 2019 2020: 95.6% 2020 2021: 90.9% 2021 2022: 96.4% 2022 2023: 91.7% 2023 2024: 84.8% 2024 2025: 47.2% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
200919631.6%
2010392153.8%
2011463678.3%
2012403177.5%
2013373389.2%
2014423583.3%
2015403690.0%
2016363288.9%
2017494591.8%
2018594779.7%
2019625690.3%
2020686595.6%
2021555090.9%
2022555396.4%
2023484491.7%
2024463984.8%
2025361747.2%
20263900.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 815 2.1% 5.4% 57.7% 29.3%
Action 2 385 1.0% 2.9% 72.5% 17.9%
Action 3 199 0.0% 1.0% 88.4% 8.0%
Action 4 111 0.0% 0.9% 90.1% 6.3%
Action 5 56 0.0% 0.0% 94.6% 5.4%
Action 6 23 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 7 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 8 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 9 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
Action 10 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.5% 3 of 199 office actions
All years 1.3% 21 of 1,600 office actions
Change +0.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014: Alice
1.6%
3.1%
1.6%
2.7%
3.0%
2019: PEG
1.1%
4.1%
1.1%
1.1%
3.8%
2024: AI examples
2.9%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 23. Merits outcomes: 12 affirmed, 3 affirmed in part, and 8 reversed.

Full reversal rate
34.8% 8/23 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
47.8% 11/23 decisions
Median appeal duration
30.1 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
May. 23, 2025 17/380,678 Reversed §103 · §112
Feb. 28, 2025 17/245,171 Affirmed in part §101 · §102 · §103 · §112
Dec. 30, 2021 15/428,959 Reversed §101 · §103 · §112
Nov. 4, 2020 15/035,641 Affirmed in part §103 · §112
Jan. 23, 2019 14/862,521 Reversed §103 · §112
Sep. 13, 2018 15/052,316 Affirmed §112
Jan. 8, 2018 13/410,129 Affirmed §103 · §112
Jan. 30, 2017 13/590,477 Affirmed §103
Sep. 15, 2015 12/015,288 Affirmed N/A
Jun. 12, 2015 12/329,573 Affirmed N/A
Apr. 22, 2015 11/845,750 Affirmed N/A
Apr. 9, 2015 11/961,288 Reversed N/A

The examiner match uses the last recorded office action before the decision. Reversal rates exclude rehearings, remands, dismissals, and other decisions that did not reach the merits. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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