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Examiner Sonny Trinh

Appears inactive Last observed office action: August 2020 (67 months ago).

Examiner Sonny Trinh appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 92.6%, they average 1.21 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 1.21
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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years
13 years (2008-2020)
Tech Center
2600 - Communications
Group
2640 - Telecommunications

Metrics

Applications Evaluated
849
Granted Applications
786
Non-Granted Applications
63
Avg OA / Grant
1.21
Last OA Observed
August 2020 (67 months ago)
Art Units Seen
2618 , 2646 , 2647 , 2648 , 2649
Work Groups Seen
2610 - Computer Graphic Processing and Hardware
2640 - Telecommunications

Context Comparison

Scope Examiners Lifetime Grant Ratio Avg OA / Grant
This Examiner 1 92.6% 1.21
Art Unit 14 65.4% 1.87
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
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 63 57 90.5%
2009 71 63 88.7%
2010 72 66 91.7%
2011 70 62 88.6%
2012 65 61 93.8%
2013 73 70 95.9%
2014 91 84 92.3%
2015 74 67 90.5%
2016 77 67 87.0%
2017 57 56 98.2%
2018 47 47 100.0%
2019 57 56 98.2%
2020 32 30 93.8%
No observed data after 2020; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA # Office Actions § 101 Percentage § 102 Percentage § 103 Percentage § 112 Percentage
1 846 1.7% 7.8% 73.5% 3.3%
2 135 2.2% 7.4% 78.5% 2.2%
3 37 0.0% 2.7% 86.5% 2.7%
4 6 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
5 4 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%
6 1 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice
2019: PEG
0.0%
2008
0.0%
2009
0.0%
2010
1.3%
2011
1.2%
2012
3.5%
2013
0.9%
2014
5.1%
2015
2.4%
2016
1.6%
2017
2.0%
2018
3.1%
2019
2.9%
2020

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