Examiner Quochien B. Vuong

Grant ratio: 83.9% (88th percentile in Art Unit 2645 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 1.40. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 83.9%
Average office actions / grant 1.40
Compared with Art unit Very easy
Compared with Work group Very easy
Compared with Technology center Very easy
Compared with USPTO Very easy

Examiner record

Examiner ID
74959
Primary art unit
2645
Work group
2640
Technology center
2600
Applications
878
Granted applications
737
Examiner phone
(571) 272-7902
Supervisor
Anthony Addy
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-7795

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 34 62.4% 2.16
Group 226 57.7% 2.06
Tech Center 1,754 57.4% 1.88
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 1.39 1,224 office actions across 878 applications
Applications with office actions 99.8% 876 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 2 0.2%
1 OA 633 72.1%
2 OAs 177 20.2%
3 OAs 42 4.8%
4 OAs 14 1.6%
5+ OAs 10 1.1%

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

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2008: 75.9% 2008 2009: 89.1% 2009 2010: 72.0% 2010 2011: 87.5% 2011 2012: 85.7% 2012 2013: 94.9% 2013 2014: 90.0% 2014 2015: 88.4% 2015 2016: 87.0% 2016 2017: 100.0% 2017 2018: 93.3% 2018 2019: 91.5% 2019 2020: 98.0% 2020 2021: 94.8% 2021 2022: 94.4% 2022 2023: 94.2% 2023 2024: 93.5% 2024 2025: 49.1% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
2008796075.9%
2009464189.1%
2010251872.0%
2011322887.5%
2012564885.7%
2013393794.9%
2014403690.0%
2015433888.4%
2016464087.0%
20174949100.0%
2018454293.3%
2019474391.5%
2020494898.0%
2021585594.8%
2022363494.4%
2023524994.2%
2024464393.5%
2025572849.1%
20263300.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 876 1.3% 15.1% 43.0% 9.6%
Action 2 243 0.0% 15.6% 55.1% 5.3%
Action 3 66 0.0% 10.6% 57.6% 1.5%
Action 4 24 0.0% 16.7% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 5 10 0.0% 20.0% 50.0% 0.0%
Action 6 3 0.0% 33.3% 66.7% 0.0%
Action 7 2 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 0.5% 1 of 184 office actions
All years 0.9% 11 of 1,224 office actions
Change -0.4 pts Percentage points

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

By year

0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.7%
0.0%
2014: Alice
1.5%
1.7%
1.6%
2.9%
1.7%
2019: PEG
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
2024: AI examples
1.7%
2025: August memo
0.0%
0.0%

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

PTAB appeals

Matched decisions: 2. Merits outcomes: 1 affirmed, 0 affirmed in part, and 1 reversed.

Full reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Full or partial reversal rate
50.0% 1/2 decisions
Median appeal duration
25.6 months
New grounds of rejection
0
Recent decisions
DecisionApplicationOutcomeIssues
Sep. 30, 2020 14/811,618 Reversed §102
Dec. 18, 2013 10/799,569 Affirmed §102

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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