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Examiner Danh Le

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

Examiner Danh Le 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 1.57 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile is dominated by ยง103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy
Difficulty vs Group Very Easy
Difficulty vs TC Very Easy
Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy
Average OA / Grant 1.57
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
14 years (2008-2021)
Tech Center
2600 - Communications
Group
2640 - Telecommunications

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
984
Granted Applications
903
Non-Granted Applications
81
Avg OA / Grant
1.57
Last OA Observed
September 2021 (57 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2617 , 2642
Work Groups Seen
2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware
2640 - Telecommunications

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 91.8% 1.57
Art Unit 19 56.7% 2.20
Group 215 61.6% 2.06
Tech Center 1,729 59.3% 1.88
USPTO 16,116 54.8% 1.98

Grant Timeline

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
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 53 41 77.4%
2009 63 53 84.1%
2010 55 48 87.3%
2011 73 68 93.2%
2012 79 75 94.9%
2013 77 72 93.5%
2014 84 73 86.9%
2015 68 62 91.2%
2016 88 82 93.2%
2017 78 74 94.9%
2018 75 72 96.0%
2019 75 71 94.7%
2020 70 68 97.1%
2021 46 44 95.7%
No observed data after 2021; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 985 1.7% 26.0% 60.4% 0.7%
2 354 2.0% 10.2% 80.8% 0.0%
3 139 0.0% 7.2% 84.2% 2.2%
4 52 0.0% 7.7% 80.8% 0.0%
5 18 0.0% 27.8% 61.1% 0.0%
6 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
7 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
8 2 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.9%
2008
3.7%
2009
1.9%
2010
0.8%
2011
0.0%
2012
0.0%
2013
0.9%
2014
5.0%
2015
2.9%
2016
2.3%
2017
0.0%
2018
0.0%
2019
2.0%
2020
1.8%
2021

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