Examiner Minh D. Dao

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2015 (126 months ago).

Examiner Minh D. Dao appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 89.2%, they average 1.34 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 1.34

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 8 years (2008-2015)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 489
Granted Applications: 436
Non-Granted Applications: 53
Avg OA / Grant: 1.34
Last OA Observed: December 2015 (126 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2618 , 2648
Work Groups Seen: 2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware

2640 - Telecommunications

Context Comparison

Scope	Examiners	Lifetime Grant Ratio	Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner	1	89.2%	1.34
Art Unit	29	57.1%	1.87
Group	290	50.2%	1.92
Tech Center	1,729	59.3%	1.88
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	66	49	74.2%
2009	76	62	81.6%
2010	69	64	92.8%
2011	61	52	85.2%
2012	61	59	96.7%
2013	63	61	96.8%
2014	61	58	95.1%
2015	32	31	96.9%
No observed data after 2015; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	489	2.5%	27.4%	48.1%	1.4%
2	127	0.8%	11.8%	64.6%	0.0%
3	26	0.0%	11.5%	69.2%	0.0%
4	7	0.0%	28.6%	57.1%	0.0%
5	3	0.0%	0.0%	66.7%	33.3%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

1.7%

2008

0.9%

2009

1.1%

2010

1.3%

2011

2.6%

2012

1.4%

2013

5.6%

2014

2.9%

2015

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