Examiner Sanh Phu

Appears inactive Last observed office action: December 2018 (87 months ago).

Examiner Sanh Phu appears to be very easy relative to their art unit, group, tech center, and USPTO peers. Their lifetime grant ratio is 89.5%, they average 1.60 office actions per granted patent, and their rejection profile leans toward §103.

Difficulty vs AU Very Easy

Difficulty vs Group Very Easy

Difficulty vs TC Very Easy

Difficulty vs USPTO Very Easy

Average OA / Grant 1.60

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Examiner Details

Observed Examiner Years: 11 years (2008-2018)
Tech Center: 2600 - Communications
Group: 2640 - Telecommunications

Metrics

Applications Evaluated: 694
Granted Applications: 621
Non-Granted Applications: 73
Avg OA / Grant: 1.60
Last OA Observed: December 2018 (87 months ago)
Art Units Seen: 2618 , 2647 , 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	89.5%	1.60
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

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	46	86.8%
2009	80	67	83.8%
2010	67	54	80.6%
2011	73	65	89.0%
2012	71	66	93.0%
2013	59	52	88.1%
2014	67	60	89.6%
2015	43	39	90.7%
2016	59	55	93.2%
2017	56	53	94.6%
2018	66	64	97.0%
No observed data after 2018; examiner may have gone inactive or moved out of examining work.

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

Rejection Timeline

OA #	Office Actions	§ 101 Percentage	§ 102 Percentage	§ 103 Percentage	§ 112 Percentage
1	697	2.0%	37.3%	43.8%	3.3%
2	279	0.7%	29.0%	52.3%	5.7%
3	86	0.0%	20.9%	64.0%	7.0%
4	24	0.0%	12.5%	62.5%	4.2%
5	11	0.0%	9.1%	63.6%	0.0%
6	5	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%
7	2	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

§ 101 Yearly Trend

2014: Alice

5.3%

2008

0.8%

2009

1.8%

2010

0.0%

2011

1.7%

2012

1.7%

2013

1.9%

2014

0.0%

2015

1.1%

2016

0.0%

2017

1.3%

2018

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